North American Gem Inc. wishes to clarify the following details on its previous announced MOU to acquire Appalachia Coal Corp (ACC).
NAG wishes to clarify that the 20,000 acres being acquired from ACC hosts an exploration target which is anticipated to host in excess of 100 million tons of coal. While there has been substantial work [...]
North American Gem Inc. announce that it has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with Appalachia Coal Corporation, a private company with advanced stage coal interests in West Virginia.
ACC currently controls approximately 20,000 acres of coal leases in West Virginia that are in various stages of permitting. Several different coal seams run on ACC’s properties [...]
A proposal to ban most mountaintop removal mining and to toughen other environmental standards for the coal industry in Tennessee is running into stiff opposition from state coal producers.
National Coal Corp. President Dan Roling told the state Senate Environment and Conservation Committee last week that passing the measure would have dire effects on the industry [...]
Village President Ken Fuller this week presented the head of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) a petition urging the department to declare an area near Banner unsuitable for coal mining. Reports of geological studies, archeological findings, and other documents also were presented.
Fuller drove Tuesday to Springfield and delivered hundreds of pages of documents [...]
Mining the Beluga coal fields across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula may put a spark in the Southcentral Alaska economy, but conservationists say it also will endanger rich salmon spawning streams and add significant pollution to the local atmosphere.
PacRim Coal LP, the company developing the Chuitna Coal Project located within the Beluga deposit, is [...]
Despite the discovery of “a viable coal reserve†at Glendale Fish and Wildlife Area in southern Indiana, it’s not going anywhere.
Department of Natural Resources director Rob Carter announced Thursday that strip mining of the coal will not be allowed because it lacked public support.
The DNR granted Black Beauty Coal Company permission to conduct exploratory drilling [...]
The federal Bureau of Land Management is about to begin an environmental impact study on a proposed surface coal mine just south of the Kane County town of Alton but also fairly close to Bryce Canyon National Park.
That location is likely to spark a “jobs vs. environmental protection” debate as the [...]
Some of the most poisoned water in Maryland flows out of a hillside here, its color like Coca-Cola and its acidity in the same range as stomach juices.
The water runs through a culvert into Georges Creek, turning it the colors of the autumn leaves overhead. For 4 miles downstream, hardly anything is alive.
“Everything died. Everything [...]
KORONADAL CITY - “Too small an amount in exchange for so mammoth an income.”
This is how a local official in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato described the share Barangay Ned landowners would get from a coal mining company.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer Celso Caro said there is a need to review the government rules on the sharing [...]
KORONADAL CITY - A coal firm said it might resort to strip mining to minimize operational cost for its coal project in Lake Sebu.
Daguma Agro Minerals Inc. resident geologist Edilberto Navarro said studies suggest that the best method for its project is strip mining “since the deposits lie in not over 100 meters from the [...]
