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Fracking proponents, opponents agree on need for exploration to determine size of Karoo shale resource
By: Samantha Herbst 26th April 2013 Gas industry stakeholders promoting and discouraging the exploiting of shale gas reserves in the Karoo basin reached a consensus at Gas Week 2013 – exploration needs to go ahead to conclusively determine whether the 485 tcf of technically recoverable shale gas in the region is, indeed,... →
Endeavour Mining progresses with Côte d'Ivoire mine construction
By: Henry Lazenby 25th April 2013 Toronto- and Sydney-listed Endeavour Mining said about 57% of construction of the Agbaou gold mine, in Côte d'Ivoire, had been completed. Endeavour on Wednesday said about 68% of the $160-million construction budget had been committed, with $59-million spent. →
ITH prepared for sustained lower gold price, optimising Alaska project
By: Henry Lazenby 25th April 2013 Vancouver-based International Tower Hill Mines (ITH) this week said it was prepared for the potential of a continuing lower gold price. ITH said it had developed an alternate work programme under which it would continue to fund its corporate activities, compliance matters and essential... →
Underground coal gas power project on cards in Free State 
By: Martin Creamer 24th April 2013 A project that will supply underground coal gas from a deep, stranded coal deposit in the Free State to an independent power producer (IPP) is at an advanced stage of planning. Former Sasol executives Johan Brand and Eliphus Monkoe, who bought 1.4-billion tons of coal near Theunissen from BHP... →
First production from Canada Lithium’s plant delayed
By: Henry Lazenby 23rd April 2013 Quebec lithium project developer Canada Lithium on Monday said it expected delivery times for the first lithium carbonate from its Québec lithium mine, near Amos, in western Quebec, was being rescheduled as a result of Canadian Standards Association (CSA) inspections of its hydrometallurgical... →
Pebble Partnership approves $80m to advance significant Alaska project
By: Henry Lazenby 22nd April 2013 The Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) has approved a budget of about $80-million to advance the world-class Pebble project, located in south-west Alaska, this year, with the goal of starting permitting under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before the end of the year. Vancouver-based... →
Excellon Resources cedes 1 100 ha of exploration ground to farmers
By: Henry Lazenby 22nd April 2013 Canadian silver miner Excellon Resources has agreed to cede 1 100 ha of exploration land to a local Mexican landowner known as the Ejido La Sierrita, who hailed a court ruling on the matter as a “historic legal triumph”. Excellon in August 2012 sued the Ejido to terminate the surface rights... →
Strateco starts legal action against Quebec uranium moratorium
By: Henry Lazenby 22nd April 2013 Quebec-based Strateco Resources on Monday said it had started a series of legal actions against the province’s environmental agency to assert its uranium exploration rights. Strateco, which owns and was developing the Matoush uranium project located within a First Nation reserve, said following... →
Saskatchewan Research Council provides new service to help miners
By: Henry Lazenby 19th April 2013 The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) has announced a new Qemscan service intended to assist the mining industry by providing precise quantitative mineralogical analyses, which is critical for proving resource deposits that could lead to mine development. SRC would be the first Qemscan service... →
Arizona Superior Court dismisses environmental lawsuit
By: Henry Lazenby 19th April 2013 Toronto-listed Curis Resources on Friday said the Maricopa County Superior Court, in Arizona, had dismissed a lawsuit brought against Curis and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), challenging the validity of regulations governing individual aquifer protection permits (APPs).... →
Fortune Minerals submits revised project description for BC project
By: Henry Lazenby 19th April 2013 Canadian anthracite project developer Fortune Minerals and its joint venture (JV) partner Posco Canada (PosCan) have submitted to the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO) and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) a revised project description for its flagship... →
Long-term thinking critical – Anglo American
By: Martin Creamer 19th April 2013 Long-term thinking helped to generate wealth, mitigate environmental harm, combat poverty and promote development in near-mine communities, Anglo American chairperson Sir John Parker said on Friday. The company’s 2012 sustainable development report, launched at its annual general meeting in... →
Canada’s global mining role not to be taken for granted – MAC
By: Henry Lazenby 17th April 2013 Canada’s current global mining leadership status should not be taken for granted as mining investment dollars are highly mobile and global competition for it is fierce, Mining Association of Canada president and CEO Pierre Gratton told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday. In a... →
First Nations ties should be grown from the inside out - Brodie-Brown
By: Simon Rees 17th April 2013 Northern Ontario’s junior exploration and mining sector is facing challenging times and not just because of the current market turbulence. New amendments to the province’s Mining Act introduced on a voluntary basis in November 2012 became mandatory on April 1. The impact has left some companies... →
Torex progress founded on firm community relations
By: Simon Rees 17th April 2013 Community relations can make or break mining projects large or small. Faced with local concerns, or even strident opposition, companies that reach an accord and then establish robust community bonds warrant close attention, as do the methods they employed. Torex Gold Resources acquired the... →
Looming China/Africa head-on collision – Solomon 
By: Martin Creamer 17th April 2013 An economic head-on collision was looming between Chinese business imperatives and Africa’s aspirations to derive more benefit from their continent’s minerals, J&J Group executive director Michael Solomon warned on Wednesday. Speaking at the Frontier Advisory China-Africa Business Summit,... →
Indonesia’s Aceh island to reclassify 1.2m ha of protected forest
By: Henry Lazenby 16th April 2013 Canadian exploration junior East Asia Minerals (EAM) hopes to eventually benefit from less stringent environmental constraints that have led to the apparent imminent reclassification of about 1.2-million hectares of protected forest, on the Indonesian island of Aceh, to ‘production forest’.... →
East Asia Minerals reports optimistic exploration results from Indonesia
By: Henry Lazenby 15th April 2013 Exploration junior East Asia Minerals on Monday reported positive results from its Phase 1 drilling programme at the company's Sangihe project, in Indonesia. East Asia Minerals VP of exploration Frank Rocca said the results were in line with the resources and grades identified in the National... →
EMED gets clearance for permits to start Spanish project construction
By: Henry Lazenby 15th April 2013 European miner EMED Mining on Monday said the Andalucian government had cleared all economic, technical and legal capacities for administrative recognition of the company's mineral rights for its Rio Tinto copper project, except for civil works on the tailings dam. This meant the government was... →
Cokal's Indonesian EIS approved
By: Esmarie Iannucci 15th April 2013 Indonesian coal hopeful Cokal has received approval for its environmental-impact study (EIS) from the Central Kalimantan provincial government on its Bumi Barito Mineral (BBM) coal project. The EIS covered the expected full development of the Eastern block of the BBM project, which would be... →
Prospective SOP producer on schedule to complete PFS by midyear
By: Henry Lazenby 11th April 2013 TSX-V-listed EPM Mining Ventures on Thursday said a prefeasibility study (PFS) probing the potential to produce sulphate of potash (SOP) from its Sevier Playa project, in south-western Utah, was progressing apace, and was expected to be complete by midyear. The PFS, being undertaken by... →
Green norms fall prey to Indian mining imperatives
By: Ajoy K Das 8th April 2013 Environmental norms are losing out in the persistent tussle between mining and environment departments within the Indian government. The latest 'green' proposal to be scuttled by one the county's specially constituted Group of Ministers (GoM) was the Environment and Forest Ministry’s push to... →
Gold miner launches risk-emergency plan after Tibet landslide
By: Henry Lazenby 5th April 2013 Vancouver-based China Gold International Resources has launched a risk-emergency plan at its Jiama mine, in Tibet, following a catastrophic landslide at the end of March that killed at least 59 people. The company this week said the plan involved conducting safety verification of its production... →
Four groups given $96k for assessments of Critical Elements project
By: Henry Lazenby 4th April 2013 The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) has allocated a total of $96.37-million to four applicants to support their participation in the federal environmental assessment of project developer Critical Elements’ proposed Rose tantalum and lithium mining project, in Quebec. This... →
Northern Ontario First Nations ask Minister to defer new mining rules
By: Henry Lazenby 4th April 2013 A group of First Nations residing in the north of Ontario this week asked Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development and Mines Michael Gravelle to delay implementing new mining rules that came into effect on Monday, claiming that the new regulations had not gone through a proper consultation... →
Energizer expects synergies between Madagascar graphite and coal projects
By: Henry Lazenby 4th April 2013 Toronto- and Frankfurt-listed Energizer Resources believes synergies between its Molo graphite project and the neighbouring Sakoa coalfield may be realised sooner than initially believed, and could potentially positively impact the Molo project’s financial metrics. Energizer on Wednesday... →
Aureus Mining gets approval to relocate two Liberian villages
By: Henry Lazenby 3rd April 2013 The Liberian Environmental Protection Agency has approved the relocation action plan (RAP) and the community development plan (CDP) for the relocation of the Larjor and Kinjor villages, which would allow Aureus Mining to move forward with developing its New Liberty gold project in the country.... →
Namibia Rare Earths produces first heavy rare-earths concentrate
By: Henry Lazenby 3rd April 2013 Canada’s Namibia Rare Earths on Wednesday said it has produced a concentrate grading 8.39% total rare earth oxide (TREO), with 96.1% heavy rare earth enrichment, from a sample of the high-grade mineralisation from its Lofdal project in north-western Namibia. The company said it had received a... →
Aldridge Minerals reports ‘robust’ metrics for Turkish project
By: Henry Lazenby 3rd April 2013 Toronto-based Aldridge Minerals on Wednesday reported “robust” metrics for its flagship Yenipazar polymetallic project, in the geographic heart of Turkey. The company published the results of a feasibility study, which had placed an after-tax net present value of $323-million on the project,... →
Arizona town rescinds acid-use ban, allowing Curis project to proceed
By: Henry Lazenby 2nd April 2013 The town council of Florence, Arizona, has rescinded an ordinance enacted in August 2012 that had effectively banned the use of large quantities of sulphuric acid by miners and other businesses, which now paved the way for mineral-development firm Curis Resources to move forward with its Florence... →
Mining at record low in uneven IPO market
By: Creamer Media Reporter 1st April 2013 For the first time in a decade, Canada's normally bustling mining sector couldn't muster a single initial public offering (IPO) on either the TSX or TSX Venture exchange in the first quarter of this year, a survey of the Canadian IPO market by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found. Only the... →
Quebec imposes moratorium on uranium exploration and mining
By: Henry Lazenby 28th March 2013 Quebec-focused uranium explorer Strateco Resources on Thursday denounced an announcement made by Quebec Environment Minister Yves-François Blanchet, effectively placing a moratorium on uranium exploration and mining in the province, and ordering an impact study on the exploration and development... →
Canada Lithium process water discharge found harmless
By: Henry Lazenby 27th March 2013 Assay evaluations and tests of process water discharge from a storage cell within the tailings management facility (TMF) at Quebec-focused project developer Canada Lithium’s Quebec Lithium project, near Val d'Or, have confirmed all metal levels were within acceptable levels of discharge into the... →
Midway Gold receives critical permit for Nevada project
By: Henry Lazenby 27th March 2013 TSX-V-listed explorer Midway Gold has received from the State of Nevada a critical water pollution control permit required for production at its Pan gold project. The announcement followed on the heels of the company publishing its draft environmental-impact statement, which would be open for... →
BC Coastal First Nations air anti-oil commercial
By: Henry Lazenby 25th March 2013 The Coastal First Nations alliance last week aired a television commercial warning British Columbians of the dangers and costs of bringing oil tankers to British Columbia's (BC's) pristine coastal waters. The commercial opened with the original audio recording of the stricken oil tanker Exxon... →
New membrane may allow purification of AMD
By: Natalie Greve 22nd March 2013 A recently developed membrane that is used to separate waste from water could become key in the treatment of pollutants ranging from acid mine drainage to oil-containing wastewater, as well as in processes ranging from desalination to kidney dialysis. The technology, which was developed by a team... →
Gold mine installs oily-water treatment, recycling system
By: Sashnee Moodley 22nd March 2013 Environmental solutions company Procon Environmental Technologies reports that, in January, it supplied an oily-water treatment solution, Ultraspin, for a car wash bay at gold producer Gold Fields’ Tarkwa mine, in Ghana. →
New multigas detector for mining industry
By: Sashnee Moodley 22nd March 2013 To increase safety and to reduce harmful gas emissions in the mining industry, safety equipment manufacturer Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) Africa added the Altair 4X Mining gas detector to its Altair range of multigas detectors in June last year. →
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