Uranium Oil and Gas Ltd, a minerals company targeting a broad range of commodities including uranium and oil has not begun public life the way it might have hoped.
Despite having uranium projects in its portfolio, the company’s shares opened in negative territory at 18.5 cents, down from an initial public offer price of 20 cents, [...]

City Water, Light and Power has received eight bids to provide wind energy and will send them to be evaluated by a Florida company that markets the city’s wholesale energy.
Once that company, The Energy Authority, reviews the proposals, CWLP will make a recommendation to Springfield aldermen, CWLP general manager Todd Renfrow said Friday.
Until that [...]

Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their reservation.
The 700 protesters rallied in one of Colombia’s most war-ravaged regions on Columbus Day — commemorated as [...]

Ratan Tata will soon become the latest of a series of top industrialists to land his private jet at Bhubaneshwar, the dusty capital of Orissa, whose vast deposits of high quality coal, iron ore and bauxite have made the eastern state the hottest investment destination in India.
This month plans have been confirmed or proposals announced [...]

Congress today accused the Naveen Patnaik government of allowing Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL), which was erecting a refinery in Kalahandi district, to source bauxite ore at the “cheapest price”.
“Is it not a well-conspired design to defraud the state when you are letting the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) follow double standard while selling its iron and [...]

Orissa Steel and Mines Minister Padmanabha Behera today dismissed charges that the state government had become embroiled in a Rs 50,000 crore scam by signing an agreement with Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) to provide it 150 million tonnes of bauxite through captive mining.
“The allegation that the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) agreed to hand over bauxite [...]

The assets of the Harbin Gasification Plant and the Harbin Coal Industry Company have been injected free of charge into China’s second largest coal producer, the China National Coal Group, as their city plans to make the switch from coal [...]

Launching a counter-attack over the bribery charges against him, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday accused the two previous governments of dereserving thousands of acres of forest land for the benefit of miners and offered to hold an impartial inquiry into all irregularities in mining activities during the last six years.
Speaking at length for [...]

The wave of consolidation sweeping the uranium sector gathered speed yesterday as emerging heavyweight Paladin Resources readied for a $100 million-plus deal in Queensland and Canadian predator Mega Uranium unveiled a friendly $100 million bid for Perth junior Redport.
The deals coincide with record uranium prices above $US45 a pound and come just two days [...]

SOUTH Australia’s first university mining course is set to address the critical shortage of skilled workers in the industry which analysts fear threatens the state’s economic growth.
As the state’s resources boom intensifies, a recruitment drive for the course at the University of Adelaide, will begin this month, targeting city and rural schools.
The new four-year [...]