Searchlight Minerals Corp., a minerals exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of projects in the southwestern United States, is pleased to provide investors with the following update on exploration activities at its Searchlight Gold Project in southern Nevada.
The Company has been working over the past year to better position itself for the exploration [...]

Yellowcake Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received the necessary permits to allow drilling on its +3,000 acre Uravan-Beck Property in Montrose County, Colorado. The permits were received from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety and U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Permits are in hand and a reclamation bond has [...]

The federal government gave its approval Monday for the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of the experimental works intended to boost domestic oil production on Western lands.
A top-ranking Interior Department official signed off on the project, and officials said an Alabama-based partnership, Oil Shale Exploration Co., would be offered a lease to [...]

Trout Unlimited has bought leases for natural-gas drilling on 4,900 acres of the Rocky Mountain Front, and the conservation group said it will seek to have the leases retired for good.
Trout Unlimited announced the purchase Thursday, less than a year after the organization accepted Front leases from Questar Corp. The company donated several petroleum leases, [...]

Federal officials are continuing to mull over an application for a major copper mine on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest northeast of Mount St. Helens.
Idaho General Mines, based in Spokane, last year proposed the $400 million-plus mine just outside the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
Encouraged by rising copper prices, the company is asking [...]

URANIUM CORP., is pleased to announce that, through it’s wholly owned subsidiary, Powertech (USA) Inc., it has received authorization to proceed with uranium exploration and confirmation drilling on its Dewey Terrace Project in Weston County, Wyoming. The Dewey Terrace Project is located just west and north of Powertech’s Dewey Burdock property in South Dakota. Powertech [...]

Golden Odyssey Mining Inc. has completed the geologic mapping and sampling program on its Mexican Hill project on the Carlin Trend in Elko County, Nevada. The project is located 40 miles south of Carlin, Nevada and is approximately 35 miles southwest and on trend with Newmont’s Rain and Emigrant Springs deposits.
The work has confirmed a [...]