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Ruling Moves CEMEX Closer to Opening Sand Mine in South Lake, Florida

November 28, 2016

A judge gave new hope this week to a company that has been battling Lake County for the right to open a sand mining operation in the midst of Wellness Way, a massive residential and commercial community that is expected

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Fatality at Barrick Gold’s Turquoise Ridge Joint Venture Mine, Nevada

November 28, 2016

Company officials say a worker is dead after he was found unresponsive at a gold mine near Winnemucca. Barrick Gold Corporation says 39-year-old Jerry Sharr was found in an underground equipment wash bay at the Turquoise Ridge Joint Venture mine

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Bowie Resources Seeking to Build Synthetic Gas from Coal Waste Plant, Colorado

November 28, 2016

Bowie Resources LLC is seeking to build a plant to produce synthetic gas from coal waste at its mine near Paonia, a potential opportunity for the company to claw back jobs lost when the mine was idled earlier this year.

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$100 Million in ‘Unaccounted for Obligations’ Liabilities Put Alpha Mine Cleanups at Risk

November 23, 2016

Fewer than four months after emerging from bankruptcy, Alpha Natural Resources has revealed $100 million in what it calls “unaccounted for obligations” state regulators worry put the company at further risk of financial failure. This increased fears about there being

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Door Left Open to North Fork Coal Mining Region After Colorado Roadless Rule

November 23, 2016

Coal mining and related activities could continue in the North Fork coal-mining region under an alternative selected by the U.S. Forest Service in its environmental study of the area. The Forest Service today is to detail its selection of the

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Ten Ways to Fix EPA and Jump-Start the Economy

November 23, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump has an unprecedented opportunity to get the economy moving again while protecting the environment in a reasonable and practical manner. While Republicans have been in charge of the White House and Congress before, there are three major

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Coal May Surpass Natural Gas as Most Common Electricity Fuel this Winter

November 23, 2016

After declining for several months, the share of U.S. electricity fueled by coal is expected to slowly begin growing when compared to the same period last year. In contrast, the share of generation from natural gas is expected to experience

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Reorganized Alpha Natural Resources Looks to Produce 13 Million Tons of Coal

November 23, 2016

Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources, which moved part of its offices from Bristol, Va., to Kingsport this year, announced on Friday the company’s plan to produce 13 million tons of coal in 2017. In a release, ANR CEO David Stetson

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Teck to Acquire AQM Copper for CAD$25 Million

November 22, 2016

Teck Resources Limited has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AQM Copper Inc. Teck will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of AQM Copper Inc. not already owned by Teck. Teck holds 42,258,545 shares of AQM,

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Sage Gold Enters Mill Processing Agreement for Its Clavos Mine, Ontario

November 22, 2016

Sage Gold Inc. has signed a toll milling agreement with Primero Mining Corp.‘s Black Fox-Stock Mill in Timmins to process up to 200,000 tonnes per year for a total of 1.1 million tonnes over an estimated 7 year mine life

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