CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Concept Group (“Concept”).
Concept, located in southern West Virginia and adjacent to the recently acquired Mid Vol Coal Group in the Central Appalachian Coal Basin, produced 0.8 million tons of metallurgical coking coal in 2007 and [...]

East West Resource Corporation and its 50% joint venture partner, Eyeconomy Holdings PLC (PLUS: EYE) are pleased to announce that a 20 hole, 2950m (9735 feet) core drilling program has been completed at Marshall Lake. In addition to testing individual shallow electro-magnetic anomalies produced by a VTEM survey, the program also tested deep anomalies beneath [...]

East West Resource Corporation is please to announce that a 3000 metre core drilling program to test as many as 27 targets has commenced on their Marshall Lake Property. 15 drill targets were selected from airborne electromagnetic (VTEM) anomalies generated in the fall of 2007. The remaining targets are Induced Polarization (IP) anomalies in [...]

Transocean Inc., the world’s largest offshore oil drilling contractor, named Steven L. Newman president and chief operating officer.
Newman replaces Jon A. Marshall, the former chief executive of GlobalSantaFe Corp., who had been in the post for only a few months following Transocean’s acquisition of its smaller rival late last year. Marshall announced plans to retire [...]

Asia faces the threat of higher inflation, slower growth and tougher times for exporters after oil prices hit new highs and the dollar plunged last week.
Farmers, miners and oil companies could benefit from high commodity prices. But most of Asia is dependent on imported energy and raw materials, and even some oil-exporting countries such as [...]

Empire Oil & Gas N.L. is pleased to announce that the Western Australian State Government’s Department of Industry and Resources Petroleum Division provided formal approval on Friday 1 February 2008 for the Operator of the EP 426 Permit, Empire Oil Company (WA) Limited, to drill the Moriary-1 well.
Empire has also settled and received on 1 [...]

Gold is returning to the North as Miramar Mining (TSX:MAE) readies a site along Canada’s Arctic coast for the first new gold mine development in a generation.
“It’s a great opportunity to see it coming back,” said Larry Connell, Miramar’s environmental manager.
Crews are now quarrying rock near the Vancouver-based company’s Doris North deposit in Nunavut and [...]

Cavico Corporation announced that on April 24th, 2007 it formed a partnership with Petro Vietnam, Vinalines, Petro Vietnam Insurance Co., Petro Vietnam Financial Co. and Global Petro Joint Stock Bank to invest in the expanding petroleum services and shipping industry within Vietnam.
Sao Mai - Ben Dinh will develop an economic zone consisting of ports, [...]

An interesting situation developed in 1900 when the new mining village was erected at Jamison Coal Co.’s No. 2 mine on a branch of Crabtree Creek, which reveals the identity of the town involved.
The coal works were in Salem Township but the 50 houses were in Hempfield. Thus, the bulk of the taxes went to [...]