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Questerre energy Corporation: Excellent Early Results From Shale Programs in Third Quarter

Heritage Oil Interim management Statement

Birchcliff energy Ltd. Announces record Third Quarter Financial Results, and Continued Success With Its Montney/Doig Natural Gas Resource Play

Tokyo (Platts) -- 13Nov2008 -- Domestic trading activity for ferromolybdenum was active in Japan this week, as consumers appear attracted by the recent fall in prices, local trade sources said Thursday. Domestic ferromoly trade...

Company's Cost-Effective, Dimmable CFL Bulb Provides Most Complete High-Performance Package in Lighting Industry

Johannesburg (Platts) -- 13Nov2008 -- Rising waters and rising costs could close DRD Gold's ERPM mine in South Africa, wiping out more than 80,000 oz/year in production and 1,700 mining jobs. The closure of the mine, just outside Johannesburg,...

Iran's Opec Governor said Opec may meet before its scheduled December 17 gathering in Oran, Algeria, as crude prices fell to a 20-month low, reported Bloomberg. Mohammad Ali Khatibi said it is not abnormal for the leaders to meet in a situation as critical as this. OPEC decided last month to reduce production quotas by 1.5 million barrels a day after waning demand caused prices to tumble from their July record of $147.27 a barrel.

Base metals have been unduly crushed by the credit crisis. The market is acting as if the global infrastructure boom is dead and buried. But the world still needs bridges, roads, ports, airports, refineries...

A federal judge has rejected a seafood company's request to rewrite a plan for dividing punitive damages to be awarded from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

At the risk of being the bearer of even more bad news, I have been watching the world's mining industry react to th... [Full Story]