Key Ohio Repubs Oppose Tax Proposal on Drilling
Two key Ohio Republicans have come out against Gov. John Kasich's proposed higher severance tax on gas-oil drilling. State Treasurer Josh Mandel and House Speaker William G. Batchelder of ...
View ArticleNY recommendation on drilling expected in weeks
ALBANY, N.Y. -; New York's health commissioner says he plans a recommendation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo "in weeks" on whether the state should approve hydraulic ...
View ArticleLargo wins Mining and Metals Deal of the Year Award 2012 from Project Finance...
March 11, 2013 /CNW/ - Largo Resources Ltd. ("Largo" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has been named the recipient of Project Finance magazine's Latin ...
View ArticleMining stocks not tapped out but energy stocks may be spent
Goldman Sachs raised its short term commodity return forecasts from two per cent to six per cent in a report Monday but kept the subdued three per cent 12 month target unchanged. This suggests a ...
View ArticleWisconsin Governor Walker signs iron ore mining law
National Governors Association (NGA) Executive Committee member Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in ...
View ArticleGroup united against uranium mining in Quebec
QUEBEC -- Aboriginal leaders, environmentalists, academics and a Gasp mayor speaking for 300 municipalities opposed to uranium development are jointly calling on the province to impose a moratorium ...
View ArticleNo more mining at Hereford Manor but possible changes in boat registration
Mining for coal at the site of the former Hereford Manor lakes? Not going to happen. But a change in how boaters register their crafts? That's a ...
View ArticleLawmakers want PEMA to explain lack of notification about drilling waste in...
Two state senators want the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to explain why authorities didn't notify local officials in Beaver and Lawrence counties about the illegal dumping of ...
View ArticleFirst Nations and Quebecers call for moratorium on uranium mines
Coalition for Better Mining in Quebec (Coalitionpour que le Qubec ait meilleure mine)also called on the province to act on its promise to hold a generic environmental evaluation. A coalition ...
View ArticleHallelujah in Houston growing optimism over US oil and gas rebirth
compared the US today with the US of the early post-WW2 era , a time when "abundant, domestically sourced energy made all things possible." "All things may be possible once again, if ...
View ArticleVales $6-billion potash project in Argentina suspended
Vale (NYSE:VALE) announced today that it will be shelving its $6-billion Argentine potash project,Potasio Rio Colorado in theMendoza province. Vale's stock is up after hours, 0.65% to $18.59 a ...
View ArticleMontana Exploration Corp. announces Senior Warrants will not be re-priced and...
March 11, 2013 /CNW/ - Montana Exploration Corp. ("Montana") announces that it has received notice from the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") that disinterested shareholder ...
View ArticleWhite Tiger Announces Changes to the Board of Directors
March 11, 2013 /CNW/ - White Tiger Gold Ltd. ("White Tiger" or the "Company") (TSX: WTG) announces that its Board of Directors has accepted the resignation ...
View ArticleCliffs Natural Resources Inc. Announce Plans to Idle Wabush Pointe Noire...
March 11, 2013 /CNW/ - Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) announced today that it expects to idle its Wabush Pointe Noire pellet plant within the city of Sept-Iles ...
View ArticleMining China central issues in Greenland election
NUUK (Reuters) - Voters in Greenland's capital will stream into the town's one polling station on Tuesday in a national parliamentary election in which mining, Chinese influence and the ...
View ArticleTomaGold and Quinto soar on Monster Lake gold hits
is up an astonishing 1,850% . TomaGold is exploring its Monster Lake project near Chibougamau, QC, in an effort funded by Quinto. The property has seen drills before, but none of the earlier owners ...
View ArticleMINING PEOPLE Vale Detour Gold Golden Band West Kirkland and North American...
. of Toronto has promoted Pierre Beaudoin to the role of COO. He is a mineral processing professional with over 28 years of international operating and project development experience and joined ...
View ArticleURANIUM Patterson Lake South hole off-the-scale
(Vancouver, BC) at Patterson Lake South in the Athabasca Basin returned a 53.0-metre interval of continuous radioactivity in hole PLS13-051 that included 11.5 metres of continuous off-the-scale (more ...
View ArticleIRON ORE First resource numbers revealed for Joyce Lake
. At a cut-off of 50% Fe, the deposit contains 10.0 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 59.45% Fe plus 5.6 million inferred tonnes grading 55.78% Fe. The operator of the project, Century, ...
View ArticleCOMMENT Devolution comes to the Northwest Territories
, in the local newspaper. Intrigued, I read on. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was to be in Yellowknife, NT, today (March 11) to make the historic announcement of a final devolution agreement that ...
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