Gov. Mark Sanford and Thomas Sax, CEO of American Titanium Works (ATW), announced that ATW will build a world-class titanium mini-mill facility in Laurens County, South Carolina. American Titanium Works LLC, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, will invest an estimated $422 million and plans to employ 320 people at its new facility in Laurens County.
Under one [...]

Zinc producer Horsehead Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Horsehead Holding Corp., announced it has broken ground at a site in Barnwell County, South Carolina, where it will build a zinc recycling facility. The announcement came at a ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking in Barnwell County.
Horsehead is constructing a recycling facility to process electric arc furnace [...]

ROMARCO MINERALS INC. announce that it has received approval for an additional 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) of drilling at the Haile Gold Mine. This represents approximately 65 additional holes at a 700 feet (213 meters) average depth. In this expanded drill program, the Company will be conducting in-fill drilling, step out drilling and deep drilling [...]

Uranium Hunter Corporation announce that it has hired Gary W. Reid as US investor relations counsel. Mr. Reid is based out of South Carolina and has many years of investor relations experience with Public companies. Mr. Reid assists companies with investor relations strategies by introducing them to the investment community at large and building and [...]

ROMARCO MINERALS INC. announces a major increase in the mineral resources at its wholly-owned Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina. The new measured and indicated resource stands at 1.5 million ounces of gold with an additional 678,000 inferred resource ounces. The new resource represents a 92% increase from the previously announced historic measured and indicated [...]

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 [...]

At an average $3.74 per gallon, Wichita, Kan., had the least expensive gas in the country Thursday, according to GasBuddy.com.
Wichita is followed by Oklahoma City ($3.79), Tulsa, Okla. ($3.79), Tucson, Ariz. ($3.80) and Columbia, S.C. ($3.84).
At an average $4.56 per gallon, Los Angeles has the most expensive gas in the country Thursday, according to [...]

An executive with the company that had said it would build an ethanol plant in Batesburg-Leesville said this week the Lexington County site is only one of several under consideration in South Carolina.
Gardner Payne, Agri-Ethanol Products vice president for business development, declined to say how many other sites are in competition with Batesburg-Leesville, or when [...]

Progress Energy will hold a conference call to discuss third-quarter earnings results on Friday, Nov. 3. The conference call will be held at 10 a.m. ET (7 a.m.PT) and will be webcast to the general public. The call will be hosted by Bob McGehee, chairman and chief executive officer, and Peter Scott, chief financial [...]

Frank Manheim believes that understanding the origin of conflict between environmentalists and the oil and gas industry could help break the political stalemate over offshore drilling.
Manheim, a retired geochemist and part-time instructor at George Mason University, says that Virginia, because of the General Assembly’s support for offshore drilling, could be the wedge to help break [...]