Waratah Coal Inc. advises that a further (fifth) Supplementary Information Memorandum dated November 7, 2008 has been lodged as part of its Listing Application to the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (”ASX”) and can be viewed on the Company’s website www.waratahcoal.com or on www.sedar.com.
The additional disclosure summarises the Company’s announcement of an Exploration Target in the [...]

Erdene Resource Development Corp. announced it was notified that Xstrata Coal Canada has increased its ownership in the company to greater than 5% through the purchase of common shares in the open market.
As a result, Xstrata Coal retains certain rights per its Alliance Agreement with Erdene, including a first option to enter into a joint [...]

Cameco Corporation announced today that it has completed the acquisition of a 70% interest in the Kintyre uranium exploration project in Western Australia for $346.5 million (US).
A joint venture comprised of Cameco (70%) and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (30%) purchased the Kintyre project from Rio Tinto for $495.0 million (US) through a bidding process. Cameco [...]

Doral Energy Corp , an oil and gas exploration and production company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of leaseholds on over 7,800 acres of producing oil and gas property on the northwestern end of the resource-rich Permian Basin in Eddy County, New Mexico (the “Eddy County Properties”). In order to complete the [...]

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of NYMEX Holdings, Inc., announced that it plans to introduce a futures contract based on prevailing market prices for hot-rolled steel coil in the U.S. Midwest region (U.S. Midwest domestic hot-rolled coil steel) early in the fourth quarter of 2008. The contract will be financially settled against [...]

Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York private equity investment firm, announced that it had agreed to sell AmeriCast Technologies, Inc., a North American leader in the design and manufacture of large, complex steel castings, to Bradken Ltd., a leading publicly-traded Australian manufacturer of cast steel and other products, primarily for the mining and railroad industries, [...]

Sonterra Resources, Inc and South Texas Oil Company, Sonterra Resources, with South Texas acting as contract operator, has spudded and is currently drilling below 5,000 feet total vertical depth (TVD) in the ST 127 Unit Well No. l under the new contract operating agreement. This well is the initial well in the Sydney/150 Deep Prospect [...]

Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc reports on the results of exploration activities during the quarter ended 31 May 2008.
David Fowler, Chief Executive Officer commented: “We have made good progress in the fourth quarter towards achieving our exploration objectives; results overall have been encouraging.
“Near the mine, we have had better results in the deep drilling program at [...]

China’s Sinosteel Corp. said Wednesday it has boosted its stake in Australian iron ore miner and developer Midwest Corp. to 28.4 percent, from 19.9 percent.
The Chinese metals trader, which is battling Murchison Metals Ltd. for Midwest, is bidding 1.36 billion Australian dollars (US$1.3 billion; ?830 million) in an offer that ends June 13.
Sinosteel had 60.4 [...]

World oil prices were slightly lower in Asian trade on Monday after fresh unrest in Africa’s biggest crude producer, Nigeria.
New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, was 13 cents lower at 116.19 dollars per barrel.
The benchmark contract rallied 3.80 dollars to close at 116.32 dollars on Friday at the New [...]