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DMCI Holdings Unit Raises Stake in Toledo Mining To Make Cash Offer

DMCI Holdings Inc. (DMC.PH) said Tuesday that its wholly-owned unit, DMCI Mining Corp., has raised its stake in Toledo Mining Corp. PLC (TMC.LN) to 37.7% from 17%.DMCI Holdings said that as a result ...

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300 attend open house on Consol drilling plans at Pittsburgh airport

On the verge of striking a $500 million deal for gas drilling on county property, the Cecil-based company held an open house on Monday night that attracted about 300 people to the Findlay Township ...

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Marcellus Shale Fracking Study To Research Natural Gas Drilling Health Effects

Ray Kemble of Dimock, Pa., holding a jug of his well water protests hydraulic fracturing outside a Marcellus Shale industry conference, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in ...

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Blake International Pens Drilling Gig

Blake International Rigs, LLC and ANKOR Energy LLC have entered into a contract to mobilize the Blake Rig 1505 onto the Vermillion 379 D platform. The contract term is 4 wells, to commence following ...

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South Africas Amplats says operations hit after mine violence

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers at Anglo American Platinum's (AMSJ.J) Rustenburg operations in South Africa are likely to stay away from work on Tuesday following violence at the mine the ...

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Australian opal mining town on brink of collapse miners

Polished black opal Miners in the outback town of Lightning Ridge --the site of world's largest-known deposits of black opals --say they may have to stop mining as a result of skyrocketing costs ...

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Mining MA likely to cool down

Flatter activity in mining mergers and acquisitions (M&As) was expected over the next year as mining companies consolidated and restructured, with fewer high-value transactions, analysts said ...

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Australias Arrium appoints new CEO

Andrew Roberts Australian miner Arrium (ASX: ARI) announced Monday the promotion of Andrew Roberts as its new chief executive officer to run the steelmaker and iron ore ...

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BRIEF-Anglo-African Minerals Guinea licence renewed

LONDON | Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:51am EST LONDON Feb 19 (Reuters) - * Anglo-African Minerals: statement re renewal of licence 163 * Anglo-African Minerals - exploration licence in Tougue ...

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Triangle of death looms over Congos mining heartlands

LIKASI - Trucks of workers and building materials hurtle through the mining town of Likasi at the heart of Congo's copper producing south, evidence of the billions being poured into the region ...

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Australias Arrium H1 underlying profit slides

MELBOURNE - Arrium Ltd, an Australian steel maker and iron ore miner, reported a 34% drop in first-half profit but still beat market forecasts on strong growth in its mining consumables unit which ...

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PMI Keegan Resources end merger talks

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Dual-listed PMI Gold and Canada’s Keegan Resources have called off a proposed merger, after it was determined that PMI’s shareholders were unlikely to ...

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Mount Gibson profits tumble on weaker prices

PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Iron-ore miner Mount Gibson Iron on Tuesday reported that net profit after tax for the interim period had declined to A$37.1-million, compared with the A$129.9-million ...

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Murchisons first pour expected this week

PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Gold miner Silver Lake Resources was on track to pour its first gold at the Murchison project, in Western Australia, by the end of this week. The miner reported on ...

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Nullagine reaches commercial production

PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Commercial production has been declared at ASX-listed Millennium Minerals’ Nullagine gold project, in Western Australia. The miner said on Tuesday that commercial ...

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Explosion in mineral drilling as race on for big find

Mark Keenan - 19 February 2013 INVESTMENT in commercial mineral exploration in Ireland has exploded by more than 300pc over a three-year period as largely foreign-based mining companies step up ...

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Northern Iron Files Project Description on Griffith Mine redevelopment project

Feb. 19, 2013 /CNW/ - Northern Iron Corp. ("Northern" or the "Company") (TSXV: NFE) (OTCQX: NHRIF) (FRANKFURT: N8I) today formally submitted a Project Description ...

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Philippine govt gives environment permit for multi-billion dollar mining project

The Philippine government issued Tuesday an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for the 5.9 billion US dollars Tampakan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in ...

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Genesis Minerals to raise funds

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Genesis Minerals (ASX: GMD) is preparing capital raising details, with the ASX granting the company a trading halt - with its shares placed in pre-open.Genesis has ...

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Queensland Mining Corporation intersects up to 13.1 copper in Queensland

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Queensland Mining Corporation (ASX: QMN) has intersected a high grade zone of 3 metres at 13.1% copper and 4.9 grams per tonne gold at the first of four diamond drilling ...

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