Tampa Bay Rays stadium exploration fee plan fails
The St. Petersburg City Council will discuss a plan today to allow the Tampa Bay Rays to pay a $1.4 million "exploration fee" to consider other stadium ...
View ArticleKenyas new mining tax discourages investment
reports Daily Nation In an effort to address its budget deficit, the government introduced a withholding tax on the gross proceeds from share or property transfers in the extractive sector. ...
View ArticleTinka Announces Appointment of Mr. Allen Morton to its Advisory Committee
Frankfurt - TLD; Pinksheets -TKRFF), announces that the Company has formed an advisory committee to provide consultation to the Board of Directors in matters related to corporate finance matters. ...
View ArticleBASE METALS COAL Teck reports 2012 numbers
says that both revenues and gross profits slipped slightly in 2012. Revenues across all business units – coal, copper, zinc and energy were $10.34 billion last year, compared to $11.51 billion ...
View ArticleGulf lease sale to open 38M acres to drilling
NEW ORLEANS -- Federal regulators plan March 20 to put more than 38 million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico up for bid to offshore energy producers.The U.S. Department of the Interior's ...
View ArticleFull production from Ontario mine delayed as development slows
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Slower than planned development and unplanned rehabilitation work on the main ramp of Toronto-listed miner First Nickel’s flagship Lockerby nickel mine had ...
View ArticleMetals processing in Montreal worth about C$1.8bn to metropolitan economy
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – The economic spinoffs of metals processing in the Montreal metropolitan area are worth about C$1.8-bilion a year and maintains about 19 000 direct and indirect ...
View ArticleChiles Codelco says halts Ministro Hales project after death
SANTIAGO – World No 1 copper producer Codelco said on Thursday it had halted construction work at its Ministro Hales copper mine project after a mechanic died in a tunnel. State miner ...
View ArticlePotential bolt corrosion stops some drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Federal concern about potentially flawed equipment has halted some drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Stress corrosion on certain bolts has halted some deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico after ...
View ArticleStrike stops work at Colombias biggest coal producer
Workers employed by Colombian coal giant Cerrejon began a strike Thursday inGuajira, in the north of the country, suspending activity at its mine. Sintracarbon isone of the country's oldest ...
View ArticleWorlds richest man Carlos Slims mining firm run out of town
Minera Frisco (PINK:MFRVF), owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, has suspended exploration activities in the Las Espejeras region in Tetela de Ocampo, Mexico, due to mounting protests by locals and ...
View ArticlePlains Creek announces closing of second tranche of non-brokered private...
Feb. 7, 2013 /CNW/ - Plains Creek Phosphate Corporation (the "Company") (TSX-V: PCP) is pleased to announce that yesterday it closed the second tranche of its non-brokered private ...
View ArticleInitial Metallurgical Testing Recovers Over 90 Gold From Suriloma Samples
Dr. Graham Carman President & CEO, is pleased to provide results of preliminary bottle-roll gold leach tests from mineralized surface samples at the La Puerta area, together with the discovery ...
View ArticleVale expects word from Argentina on mine tax breaks this month
SAO PAULO – Brazilian mining giant Vale expects Argentina to respond by February 28 to its demand for tax and exchange-rate breaks it considers necessary to keep building a $6-billion potash ...
View ArticleDeath penalty exploration process begins in Independence triple homicide
Federal authorities have begun the process that will determine whether prosecutors seek death sentences for two men charged in a November triple homicide in Independence.But a final decision, which ...
View ArticleGrowth to ease on mining slowdown RBA
Australia's rate of economic growth is expected to ease slightly in 2013 as mining investment slows, the central bank says.The Reserve Bank of Australia downwardly revised its forecasts for ...
View ArticleGrowth to slow mining boom to peak in 2013 RBA
Australia's rate of economic growth is expected to ease slightly in 2013 as mining investment slows, the central bank says. The Reserve Bank of Australia downwardly revised its forecasts for ...
View ArticleGallery Up-close tide pool exploration
Nine-year-old Misael Hernandez holds a lobster shell that he found as he and other fourth graders from Ada Harris Elementary School explore the tide pools in south ...
View ArticleHD Mining asks union to drop legal case on foreign workers and talk
Coal miners in China. The plan to use Chinese miners at four B.C. coal mines has focussed attention on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers ...
View ArticleNew Standard Energy Terminates Drilling Contract Citing Safety Concerns
New Standard Energy (NES) disclosed Friday that, as operator of the Goldwyer joint venture (GJV) with ConocoPhillips, it has terminated its drilling contract with Century Energy Services (MB Century) ...
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