The Australian reported that BHP Billiton is in talks to take up a 25% stake in a A$615million (US$733million) bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India`s eastern Orissa province. The deal would be BHP Billiton`s first project in India.
It also reported that Zinifex Ltd and its Belgian partner Umicore Group are believed to have appointed [...]
WASHINGTON - More than a year after the Sago mine explosion that killed 12 miners, protections for miners who get trapped underground have not yet been implemented, the United Mine Workers president said Wednesday.
UMW President Cecil Roberts testified during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing in which senators questioned Richard Stickler, head of the nation’s mine [...]
China’s Chambishi copper smelter in Zambia has agreed to process 230,000 tonnes of copper concentrate per year from Lumwana Copper Mines under a new five-year deal, Lumwana’s owners said on Friday.
Equinox Minerals Ltd. , which owns the Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, said in a statement that the agreement was a ‘take and pay’ contract [...]
Many of the safety measures state legislatures and Congress rushed to adopt to protect the 46,000 people working in the nation’s underground coal mines after the Jan. 2. Sago Mine explosion have yet to take effect.
There are still no rescue chambers or wireless tracking and communications equipment in the country’s 606 underground coal mines, and [...]
Standard Drilling reports that the previously announced letter of intent with UMW Petropipe (L) Ltd has been extended through the end of January 2007.
The Parties expect to conclude the agreements (share sale agreement, joint venture agreement, shareholder agreement and management agreements in respect of the operations of the jackup rigs) before the end of January [...]
Construction of two new ethanol plants in Iowa will offer area farmers stronger local demand for their corn.
Bill Todorof, chairman of Cedar River Ethanol LLC, and Unity Ethanol LLC, made double announcements Wednesday, Dec. 27 of his companies’ plan to construct two ethanol plants - one in Ottumwa and the second near Ainsworth/Columbus Junction, IA.
Technology [...]
Coal companies must replace by-the-book compliance with a culture of prevention if they want to eliminate the underground fires and explosions that are killing miners, says a panel of experts releasing recommendations for the industry.
The Mine Safety Technology and Training Commission has studied 25 years of fires and explosions to produce more than 70 recommendations [...]
Billy Vandom was 220 feet underground, but to him, it was the top of the world. He is a coal miner, a species of well-paid American worker that was on the verge of extinction in these parts for more than a decade.
Now global economic forces have realigned, and coal mining is back. And a new [...]
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 [...]
Lusaka - Zambia is planning to invite foreign firms to conduct exploratory drills for oil and gas after the first-ever reserves were found near the border with Angola, the government said on Monday.
Samples taken at a dozen sites in the north-western provinces of Zambezi and Chavuma over the weekend confirmed gas and oil residues in [...]
