Hidalgo Mining International, an innovative mining company headquartered in Port Washington, N.Y., announced that its new corporate offices have officially opened at # 20, Avenue Lamartiniere Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Mark Daniel Klok, President of HMIT, stated: “The Company has now opened its new offices at # 20, Avenue Lamartiniere Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Mr. O’Donnell Maximin, who is one [...]

POWERTECH URANIUM CORP. announce that activities associated with its mine permit application for the Dewey-Burdock Project, in Fall River and Custer counties, South Dakota, are advancing on schedule.
A new uranium exploration permit application for 30 additional drill holes was submitted to the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SD DENR). The purpose of [...]

Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners L.P, a mining and exploration company is to announce its cash distribution of $0.31 per unit on Pioneer Southwest’s outstanding common units for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The distribution is payable August 12, 2008 to unitholders of record at the close of business on July 29, 2008. This distribution [...]

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc and Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. announced that each company’s Board of Directors has approved a definitive merger agreement under which Cleveland-Cliffs will acquire all outstanding shares of Alpha in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $10 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, for each share of Alpha common stock, Alpha [...]

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, today announced a U.S. $30 million initial investment in Salt Investment S.A. (SI). The company is a new Djibouti-based salt production and export company that will harvest, wash and export salt extracted from Lake Assal, the largest undeveloped salt [...]

U.S. Energy Corp., a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, uranium, oil and gas, gold, and real estate, today announced that PetroQuest Energy L.L.C. (”PetroQuest”) (PQ) has spudded the Bluffs Prospect in Louisiana.
U.S. Energy Corp. is participating in this well as a 20% working interest partner with PetroQuest. This initial well [...]

EnerCom, Inc., announced today the lineup and schedule for The Oil & Gas Conference®, http://www.theoilandgasconference.com. In its 13th year, the Conference, held in Denver Aug. 10-14, is the oldest and largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 70 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $500 billion. This premier forum [...]

Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced the successful acquisition of significant additional leasehold covering its prospective Bay Exploration Area located near Galveston, Texas. This completes the lease acquisition phase in this area. Harvest and its partners now control a major position in the Bay prospective area containing 13 identified leads in the regionally prolific Frio and [...]

Another British-owned mining firm, Semco Exploration and Mining Corp. has been granted two exploration permits by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to search for gold, copper and other minerals in Agusan del Norte.
Semco is 99.98-percent owned by Semco Minerals Plc, is investing a total of P6.325 million to conduct a two-year exploration [...]

A Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against foreign-owned mining firm BHP Billiton, barring the company from operating in the Pujada Nickel mining site in the City of Mati, Davao Oriental.
In an Omnibus Order dated May 20, 2008, Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Makati RTC Branch 59 ordered BHP [...]