Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable mobile wireless networking solutions, announced today that its global partner Mine Site Technologies (MST) has secured two new mining deployments in Australia using the Rajant BreadCrumb® wireless mesh solution. Recently announced as Rajant’s global partner for mining, MST is the leading mining solutions provider, specializing in the development [...]

Empire Energy Corporation International and its Australian subsidiary Great South Land Minerals today announced that the Hunt Energy Rig Number 3 has arrived in Tasmania, is stored in northern Tasmania and will be moving shortly to the Bellevue #1 site in the center of Tasmania. Local drilling company Spauldings has been mobilised and plans to [...]

Empire Energy Corporation International announced that, having just completed the drilling of an oil and gas well at Sealake, Victoria, the Hunt Energy Rig Number 3 has arrived at the Melbourne docks and is being washed down prior to quarantine inspection. Assuming quarantine approval, it is expected that all 32 semi-trailer loads of equipment (including [...]

Empire Energy Corporation International announced that, along with its wholly owned subsidiary Great South Land Minerals Ltd. (GSLM), it has signed both a Note for AUD $5 million and a Memorandum of Understanding governing formation of a Joint Venture that could cancel the Note and supply up to AUD $40 million of additional funding.
The Note [...]

Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (“Sterlite”), a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, the London-based FTSE 100 metal and mining group, and ASARCO LLC (“Asarco”), a Tucson based mining, smelting and refining company, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for the sale to Sterlite of substantially all the operating assets of Asarco for $2.6 [...]

Comdek announced that it has signed an option to acquire 100% of the issued capital of Tiger Coal, a company that has applied for two coal projects, the Jericho East and Jericho West Coal Projects in Tasmania. Inferred historical tonnes of coal is 60 to 80Mt of black thermal coal. The company reproted that there [...]

ZINIFEX Ltd has prevailed with its $790 million, three-month takeover battle for Allegiance Mining NL, announcing it has gained control of the nickel miner.
Lead and zinc miner Zinifex, which was born from the ashes of the failed Pasminco Ltd, said it had increased its stake in Allegiance to 51.1 per cent from 44.78 per cent [...]

Australia’s Allegiance Mining NL said on Monday it has stockpiled 10,000 tonnes of nickel-bearing ore and is on track to start milling operations at its Tasmanian project in the fourth quarter of calendar 2007.
Allegiance is developing its Avebury mine 7 km (4 miles) outside the mining town of Zeehan on Australia’s Tasmania island.
It plans to [...]

Australia’s Allegiance Mining N.L. said on Tuesday it had started stockpiling ore from its Avebury nickel mine ahead of commissioning a new mill in the 2007 September quarter.
Allegiance has executed a $1.3 billion sales agreement and partnership with China’s Jinchuan Nickel Group.
The mine, located in Tasmania, holds a reserve of 4.4 million tonnes of ore, [...]

BEACONSFIELD Gold’s northern Tasmanian mine, where a rock fall last year killed a miner and trapped two others for two weeks, will be reopened by March, almost 11 months after the accident forced its closure.
Chief executive Bill Colvin promised that safety would be “equal to or better than any other mine around”, after announcing the [...]