The northern Chinese province of Shanxi, where 19 miners died in a gas blast on Sunday, will close more coal mines by mid-2008 to raise safety conditions and better protect the environment, Xinhua news agency said.
The government could increase to 1,100 the number of coal mines to be shut by June 2008, up from [...]
Coal miner James River Coal Co. on Wednesday said its third-quarter loss widened, due largely to production slowdowns.
The company’s quarterly loss increased to $8.4 million, or 53 cents per share, versus a loss of $2.2 million, or 14 cents per share, during the same period last year.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial forecast a loss of [...]
PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of millions of tons of waste coal are lying around the mines of Pennsylvania and nearby states, and that gets John Rich excited.
Rich is president of WMPI, in Gilberton, northeastern Pennsylvania, where he is setting up the first plant in the United States to turn waste coal into diesel fuel.
“This will help [...]
Radisson Mining Resources Inc. is pleased to report on the diamond drilling program currently in progress on its O’Brien / Kewagama project located immediately west of the Wood / Pandora property of Globex / Queenston and 6 km west of the Agnico-Eagle-Lapa deposit.
Four diamond drill holes, KW06-12 to KW06-15, of the Radisson’s planned 4000 meter [...]
Pan American Gold Corporation received the remaining assay certificates for the Huicicila project drilling. A routine review of data plotted on project drill logs from these certificates show gold and silver values were reversed when transcribed to the DDH-1 drill log. Intercepts of gold mineralization reported in the news release dated October 25, 2006, were, [...]
MINING at the Beaconsfield goldmine has moved a step closer after Tasmania’s work safety regulator yesterday approved a resumption of blasting and drilling to make the mine deeper.
Workplace Standards Tasmania rescinded a ban on work on the mine’s main decline imposed after the Anzac Day rockfall that killed miner Larry Knight just over six months [...]
MILTON-The president of United Ethanol doesn’t put much credence in projections of doom and gloom for the ethanol industry.
David Cramer is confident that ethanol is here to stay.
While United Ethanol’s $60 million plant nears completion in Milton’s Eastside Industrial Park, a story in the Chicago Tribune questions the future of ethanol and the livelihood [...]
Sao Luis Mining, Inc., a diamond mining and precious metals exploration company, has announced today that it has initiated the process to become a fully reporting company under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations. Presently Sao Luis Mining is a non-reporting company trading on the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) Pink Sheets as well as on [...]
