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Timken Expands Bearing Offerings for Mining Applications

The Timken Company has expanded its line of sealed spherical lower swing bearings, offering mine operators improved machine availability on many of the most common dragline and shovel models. Timken® sealed lower...

18 Sep 2012

Red Eagle Mining Begins Preliminary Economic Assessment at Santa Rosa Project

Red Eagle Mining, a gold exploration and development firm, has reported that mine development associates has begun to work on a NI 43-101 compliant resource calculation, which is to be followed by a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the San Ramon gold system located in Santa Rosa project in Colombia.

11 Sep 2012

Titan Europe to Present at MINExpo 2012

MINExpo 2012 is one of the largest expositions in the world and will be held from 24 to 26 September, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

7 Sep 2012

Petaquilla Announces Completion of Resource and Reserve Estimate for Botija Abajo Deposit

Petaquilla Minerals is pleased to announce that a reserve and resource estimate has been completed for the Botija Abajo Deposit related to its Molejon gold operations by Behre Dolbear & Company (USA).

7 Sep 2012

Mineral Resources and Reserve Estimates of Hollister Gold Project

Great Basin Gold, an international gold mining company, has provided updated estimates on its mineral resource and reserves in the Hollister Gold Project ("Hollister") in Nevada, on the Carlin Trend. The update as on June 30, 2012, reports yield of around 400,000 Au eqv oz, and resource depletion of more than 370,000 t.

6 Sep 2012

FracRock Enters Three-Year Agreement for Eco-Friendly Mining Technologies

FracRock International has declared that it has entered into a three year agreement with a prominent E&P operator in the Argentina-based Neuquen basin.

6 Sep 2012

Victoria Gold Completes Draft Screening Report for Eagle Gold Project

Victoria Gold, an emerging producer of gold, has declared that the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board (YESAB) has completed the draft screening report for the Eagle gold project, located in Central Yukon.

5 Sep 2012

Balex Delta Pollution Response Operation was Successfully Conducted in Baltic Sea Area near Finland

On 28 and 29 of August, a mock pollution response operation, Balex Delta, was conducted in the Baltic Sea by the countries along the sea. The region chosen to carry out this operation was the sea area near Helsinki in Finland.

5 Sep 2012

Cub Energy Completes Natural Gas Testing Operations at Makeevskoye-20 Well

Cub Energy has announced that testing for gas has been completed at the Makeevskoye-20 (M-20) well at a rate of 5.3 MMcf per day. The well is located in Ukraine.

4 Sep 2012

Shell Petroleum Assigns 30% Interest in Nigerian OML

On 31 August 2012, Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) sold 30% interest in oil mining lease (OML) 40 to Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria. OML is located in the Niger Delta. SPDC has received approximately US$102 million as total cash proceeds through this deal.

3 Sep 2012