March 7, 2011 Energy Fuels’ Pinon Ridge Uranium/Vanadium Mill Receives Final Radioactive Materials Licence from State of Colorado Energy Fuels Inc. (TSX:EFR), an advanced uranium and vanadium development company, was issued the final Radioactive Materials Licence for the Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill today. As previously announced on January…
March 6, 2011 Nonferrous minerals exploration rebounds 45% to second-highest total on record Responding to rising metals prices and more stable markets, most mining companies increased exploration budgets in 2010. The result was a 45% increase in estimated worldwide nonferrous metals exploration spending…
March 6, 2011 Last coal plant in US Pacific Northwest to shut down starting in 2020 The last coal-fired power plant in the Pacific Northwest will shut down completely by 2025 under an agreement announced Saturday by Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, says a report by the…
March 4, 2011 Teck announces coal shipment with Westshore Teck Resources Limited ("Teck", TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) announced today that it has reached agreement with Westshore Terminals Limited Partnership ("Westshore") on terms for the shipment of steelmaking coal…
March 4, 2011 Coalhunter Mining to be acquired by Cardero Resources for $2 million Cardero Resource Corp. announced on Friday that it will acquire all of Coalhunter Mining Corporation's outstanding securities. Cardero will pay about Can$2.1 million in the transaction. Cardero Resources was up…
March 4, 2011 Junior perseveres with bold bid to find Olympic Dam clone Tasman Resources says the latest drilling on its Vulcan prospect near Olympic Dam shows evidence of “significant” iron oxide copper gold uranium […]
March 3, 2011 Kate Middleton has coal mining connection The Associated Press reports that Kate Middleton’s ancestors worked in England’s coal pits: Her great-grandfather left coal country nearly a century ago […]
March 1, 2011 Australian iron ore, coal and gold exports to rise further in 2011 The Australian Government's statistics bureau (ABARE) is looking for further growth in iron ore, coal and gold exports in the current year as the commodities boom continues. PERTH (The West…
February 27, 2011 Making use of methane: Methane recovery technology by Australia-based Industrea is getting a lot of attention in China In October 2010 the Chinese government shut down 1,611 illegal coal mines in an effort to improve an industry whose working conditions have been described as harsh, dangerous, and often…
February 26, 2011 New South African state mining company to begin coal production by June: CEO South Africa’s state-owned African Exploration, Mining and Finance Corp. said it will start producing 800,000 metric tons of coal annually for domestic electricity provider Eskom Holdings Ltd. by June, Bloomberg…
Indonesia identifies eight blocks with large rare earth reserve potential The blocks will be mined by the new state-owned miner Perminas. February 10, 2026 | 09:51 am
