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Whiting Oil and Gas Purchase Automated Petrography System from FEI

FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) and Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, announce the purchase of QEMSCAN® automated petrography and Helios NanoLab™ DualBeam™ technology for Whiting’s new rock lab in its Denver, Colorado headquarters.

26 May 2011

Use of Overlay Wearplate in Mining Haulpak Trucks Results in Increased Revenues for Operators

The NanoSteel® Company, a leader in coating technologies, today announced results from an overlay wear plate application on a mining haulpak truck which has increased service life by a factor greater than four and resulted in significant operating cost savings and increased revenue for a mining customer.

26 May 2011

Sentry Petroleum Finalizes Agreement with Depco Drilling

Sentry Petroleum has inked the final agreement with Depco Drilling to supply a drilling rig and workforce for its future coal seam gas drilling campaign in ATP 862 and 864 in Queensland Australia.

26 May 2011

Uranium North Resources Moves Fuel and Drilling Supplies to Amer Lake Project

Uranium North Resources is exploring five gold properties, in which two properties are for drilling.

24 May 2011

Baja Mining Begins Surface Mining Activities at Boleo Project

Baja Mining has begun surface mining at its Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project, which is situated near Santa Rosalia in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

23 May 2011

Alto Group Holdings Announces Final Equipment Arrival to Production Site in Northern Sonora

Alto Group Holdings, a new mining and commodities trading firm based in New York, has completed the border crossing and the last equipment for Phase I exploration has arrived to the production spot in Northern Sonora, Mexico.

19 May 2011

Antrim Energy Signs Drill Rig Contract for East Fyne Field

Antrim Energy is a global oil and gas exploration and production firm based in Calgary in Canada. It has announced that the Fyne Field joint venture, in which Antrim holds 35.1%, is now purchasing the site study information and has signed a drill rig contract for the East Fyne appraisal/expansion well at Block 21/28a in UK Central North Sea.

From Crown Point Energy Inc. 19 May 2011

Cabo Drilling Receives Drill Rigs Contract from Curis Resources

Cabo Drilling has received two drill rigs contract and to drill a minimum of 7,500 feet at the Florence copper project of Curis Resources.

11 May 2011

Western Sierra Mining Uses Portable Processing Equipment to Expand Exploration

Western Sierra Mining will use a new handy processing equipment to extensively develop the capabilities of its exploration and testing.

10 May 2011

Orica Reports Strong Growth

Explosives and chemicals manufacturer Orica has reported a strong profit with a nearly fivefold increase in the first half net profit for the year. The net profit of $263.8 million was posted by the company for the six months till March 31, 2011. This is a 379% increase from $55 million that was posted in the first fiscal half of 2010.

2 May 2011