Global Minerals Ltd. announce that it has closed and completed the second and final drawdown (US$1,250,000) of the US$2,000,000 convertible loan facility with Investec Bank (UK) Limited (LONDON: INVP) (JOHANNESBURG: INP) (”Investec”). The Company completed its initial drawdown of US$750,000 on August 15, 2008.
The loan will be used by Global Minerals primarily for expenditures [...]

Based on its recent analysis of the heavy-duty truck bearings market, Frost & Sullivan has presented GGB Bearing Technology with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year in the Class 7-8 truck bearings segment. Each year, this award is presented to the company that has demonstrated excellence in [...]

SunOpta Inc. (NasdaqGS:STKL - News) (Toronto:SOY.TO - News) today announced Opta Minerals Inc. has acquired 67% of the outstanding common shares of MCP Mg-Serbien SAS (“MCP”) of France. The transaction includes an option to acquire the remaining 33% minority interest on similar terms. For fiscal 2007 MCP recorded revenues of approximately US$6.3 million selling ground [...]

On 19-21 September 2007, Almaty will host MiningWorld Central Asia 2007 and Kazcomak 2007 exhibitions in Pavilions 9B and 9A of Atakent KBCC as well as outdoors in front of the Pavilions.
Over these thirteen years, MiningWorld Central Asia has become the largest mining and metallurgical forum annually providing venue for mining industry specialists, equipment manufacturers, [...]

Scores of Greenpeace activists today formed a huge inscription Climate Change Starts Here at the Cernice coal mine near Most to protest against raising the official Czech limits for brown coal mining.
Jan Rovensky, head of the Czech Greenpeace climate campaign, said that if the limits are broken, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions will double. [...]

Russia and Belarus sought Tuesday to resolve a damaging trade battle that has led Moscow to halt oil supplies to several EU nations via Belarus, causing fresh alarm in Western Europe over its reliance on Russian energy.
A delegation led by Vice-Premier Andrei Kobyakov flew to Moscow on Tuesday to find a solution to the halt [...]

Tournigan Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:TVC.V ) is pleased to announce the acquisition of 413 federal lode mining claims covering 8,260 acres in the historic “Arizona Strip” uranium district in the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona, USA. The claims cover known or potential uranium mineralization hosted in “collapse” breccia pipes. Uranium mineralization found in collapse breccia [...]