Ord River Resources announced that exploration by SARCO has identified an independently certified JORC compliant indicated bauxite resource of 62Mt. This resource is present on the Yuqida tenement located in Bolaven Plateau in southern Lao PDR. Further drilling is continuing on the Yuqida tenement with the aim of defining further resources. Drilling will continue through [...]

Atlas Iron has released an update regarding its Pardoo and Abydos iron ore projects. Highlights include 20m @ 62.4 % Fe from 14m in PDRC648 and 14m @ 58.4 % Fe from 28m in PDRC721.
Original Announcement: Iron Ore Exploration Update

Particle Drilling Technologies Inc. has completed the private sale of $5 million shares of its common stock to institutional and other accredited investors at $2.35 per share.
The Houston-based oilfield services firm pocketed $11.75 million from the offering and plans to use the gross proceeds to manufacture particle impact drilling systems, to hire and train personnel, [...]

With the price of oil down sharply from its mid-summer highs, some investors who put money into energy-sector exchange traded funds have slipped up as well.
Despite a small bump late last week, the price of crude oil has fallen about 22 percent from its July peak of close to $80 a barrel and pulled stocks [...]

Petrojack ASA (`Petrojack`) on Wednesday bought 192,097,359 shares in Petrolia Drilling ASA (`PDR`), corresponding to 24.87% of the shares outstanding in PDR.
Petrojack held no shares in PDR, and no rights to shares in PDR, before the above mentioned purchase.