Avalon Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce the assay results from the remaining twelve holes from the Phase 2 winter drilling program on the Lake Zone Rare Earth Element (”REE”) deposit. The deposit is located on the Company’s 100% owned Thor Lake Rare Metals project, 100km southeast of Yellowknife, NWT. The highlights from these results [...]

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is pleased to provide an update of its unique “mine-to-market” strategy to become a fully integrated explorer and global supplier of rare earth elements (”REE’”) and other strategic metals.
The Fundamentals of the Rare Earth Sector Remain Strong: The world demand for REE continues to accelerate while China, the primary supplier [...]

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Less Common Metals Ltd. (”LCM”) of Birkenhead, United Kingdom, subject to the required regulatory approvals in the UK and Canada. The purchase price of this acquisition is [...]

Asia faces the threat of higher inflation, slower growth and tougher times for exporters after oil prices hit new highs and the dollar plunged last week.
Farmers, miners and oil companies could benefit from high commodity prices. But most of Asia is dependent on imported energy and raw materials, and even some oil-exporting countries such as [...]

The founders of the Dallas-based Texas Business for Clean Air, an unlikely coalition of free-market well-to-dos formed to oppose Texas’ 17 proposed pulverized coal power plants, paid a visit to Austin last week. Co-founder David Litman, the father of Hotels.com, argues that utilities’ coal proposals, especially those of TXU (proposing 11 plants), don’t reflect the [...]

Standard Drilling has entered into a Letter of Intent (”LOI”) with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UMW Group, UMW Petropipe (L) Ltd regarding ownership, marketing and operation of two jackup rigs.
The parties expect to conclude the agreements (share sale and purchase Agreement in respect of the ownership companies, a Joint Venture Agreement, Shareholder Agreement and [...]

Four members of a national conservation group touring Florida today to showcase gas-saving vehicles unfortunately had to use petroleum gas exclusively to run their biofuel-burning Chevrolet because ethanol fuel is not yet available here.
“The trick is you only have one pump in the whole state of Florida, unlike in the Midwest, where there are hundreds [...]

Jeff Lydecker depends on driving to maintain a successful business, so he made a smart business decision to keep costs to a minimum.
Although some drivers spent the summer searching for cheap gas, Lydecker bought a 2006 Toyota Prius hybrid, which uses a mix of gas and electric energy. It gets him almost twice the mileage [...]

With global oil and U.S. gasoline prices reaching new highs on worries about Middle East violence and pipeline explosions in Nigeria leading to supply disruptions, the Alliance to Save Energy urges motorists to be more fuel efficient to benefit the nation’s energy security as well as their own pocketbooks.
The Alliance’s tips for proper vehicle maintenance [...]