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Tarkington ISD enters into oil and gas lease
At their October 23 meeting the Tarkington ISD board of trustees voted to give Business Services Director Dennis Shew the authority negotiate a mineral lease with Houston based oil and gas firm Texas Energy Acquisitions.
Nido Petroleum Provide Progress Report Oil Exploration in NW Palawan Basin
Nido Petroleum and its Joint Venture partner Kairiki Energy have provided progress report on the Tindalo-1 exploration well located in Service Contract 54 (SC54), located in the NW Palawan Basin, offshore the Philippines.
While drilling through the Nido Formation reservoir section, oil shows were observed, (demonstrated by elevated mud log wet gas readings and strong oil [...]
Zaruma Resources Copper Mine Drilling Project on Luz del Cobre
Zaruma Resources Inc., reports that a 2,000 metre drilling programme has started in the Sapo-Carrizo area located 7 kilometres west of the Luz del Cobre copper project, in the Company’s 11,300 hectare San Antonio property (Sonora, Mexico).
As previously reported, a number of targets with oxide copper mineralization have been identified in the Sapo-Carrizo area.
Mine Drilling Equipment Investment, Precision Drilling to Buy Grey Wolf for $2 Billion
Precision Drilling Trust, Canada’s largest driller, agreed to buy Grey Wolf Inc. for $2 billion to add customers, equipment and crews in fast-growing U.S. natural- gas basins in states such as Texas and Colorado.
Stockholders of Grey Wolf, based in Houston, will get $5 and 0.1883 trust unit per share, the companies said today in a [...]
Oil Driling and Exploration, Iran, India and China Make Plans and Agreement Explore Caspian Sea
Iran is in talks with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) and China’s offshore oil corporation for the development of oil reserves in the South Caspian Sea region, the Press TV satellite channel reported Saturday.
The report quoted the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) deputy director Hojatollah Ghanimifard as saying that NIOC has been discussing [...]
Texas Mining Company Find More Gold Mine Exploration in Oquirrh
A Texas mining company is doing exploratory drilling in the tops of the Oquirrh Mountains above Middle Canyon.
Grand Central Silver Mines, a Carrollton, Texas-based mineral resource company has contracted with Utah-based drilling company Boart Longyear to set up a drilling rig near the Oquirrh Overlook on land owned by Grand Central Silver Mines, according to [...]
New Metal Mine Exploration Future at Ngwaako Pan, south of Lake Ngami
There is an adage in Ngamiland that goes: “O sechwe ‘nte otswa ko Ngwaako”. The expression owes its existence to the prospecting work in the 70s at the Ngwaako Pan, south of Lake Ngami.
Once a month, workers at the prospecting site were ferried across the lake to Sehitwa on month-end shopping excursions. The trucks dropped [...]
Gold Mine Exploration Project Progress by Evolving Gold Corp.
Evolving Gold Corp. is pleased to provide an update on the status of its active properties. Assay results are expected in early Fall from the Rattlesnake Hills Diatreme Complex and from the North Carlin District Properties.
Rattlesnake Hills Diatreme Complex, Wyoming
Phase One drilling, 24,000 ft (7,300 m) is currently underway at Evolving Gold’s Rattlesnake Hills Diatreme [...]
Uranium Mine Exploration, Magnum Uranium To Develop San Rafael Project
Magnum Uranium Corporation is pleased to announce that a hydrogeologic and mineralogical program for the Down Yonder uranium deposit was initiated on July 25, 2008. The program is designed to be the first step in determining whether uranium in-situ recovery (ISR) extraction processes are technically feasible.
