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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 11, 2008) - Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited (TSX VENTURE:KLG)(AIM:KLG) is pleased to report further exploration progress on its promising coal prospects in East Kalimantan (see attached map, available at: http:/ /media3.marketwire.com/docs/klg911m1.JPG). Latest highlights include: - Further evidence of significant coal occurrences at Mandul Island - High calorie coal showings at two other concessions - Four more coal concessions added to...
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- America West Resources, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: AWSR) , a domestic coal producer with mining operations in Central Utah, today announced that the Company has signed a Coal Supply Agreement with a major U.S. energy company providing for the delivery of bituminous coal mined from America West's Horizon Coal Mine for use in a co-generation power plant based in California. The $6.6 million deal, which expires on December 31, 2009, provides for...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- J. Brett Harvey President and Chief Executive Officer of CONSOL Energy is scheduled to present at the 2008 Lehman Brothers CEO Energy Conference on Thursday, September 4 at 11:05 a.m. Eastern Time. The audio presentation along with the associated slides will be webcast and may be viewed live or via replay at: http://www.consolenergy.com/ - Investor Information - Presentations to Analysts CONSOL Energy Inc., a high-Btu bituminous coal and coal...
By Hengel, Mark RISING ENERGY PRICES have made exploiting many of Arkansas' natural resources more viable, and many of those resources are in south Arkansas. "The price of energy commodities always renews interest in Arkansas' resources," said Ed Ratchford, senior petroleum geologist at the Arkansas Geological Survey. "Arkansas is rich in fossil fuels and has a long history of production of fossil fuels." Recent developments prompting increased interest in energy production in south Arkansas...
By Letter to the Editor Energy sources I agree with Mike Roudnev's letter published in The Times of August 6 regarding electricity generation, especially when he says, "Offshore drilling may be our best alternative." I would add that nuclear and coal are other "best" alternatives. For example, coal gasification plants can not only produce gas for power generation but can also capture carbon dioxide off gas which can be pipelined to oil fields for enhanced oil recovery. Oil shale is another...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 31, 2008) - Cougar Minerals Corp. (CNQ:COUG) ("Cougar") and Noble Hydrocarbons Alta Ltd ("NHA"), a subsidiary of Noble Metals Group Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NMG) have begun a diamond drill program on NHA's oil shale permitted holdings located near Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan. Under the Cougar/NHA agreement (see Cougar news release July 16, 2008) Cougar has advanced $550,000 to NHA to earn an option to acquire a 25% interest in any non-hydrocarbon resource...
By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. Jul. 19--TAZEWELL, Va. -- Times could soon be getting tougher for residents of Southwest Virginia. Appalachian Power filed for a 11.7 percent rate increase Friday with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. The fuel factor filing is in addition to an earlier 24 percent rate increase request by the company still pending with the commission. Appalachian Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, is seeking an increase in the fuel...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 15, 2008) - CLOUDBREAK RESOURCES LTD. (TSX VENTURE:CDB)(FRANKFURT:C6K)(PINK SHEETS:CUDBF). President Blair Naughty is pleased to report Cloudbreak Resources Ltd. has applied for a 100% interest in a further 108 Coal Dispositions located on the east side of the Pasquia Hills of East-Central Saskatchewan. This acquisition is in addition to the 246 Dispositions already pending in the system. These Coal Dispositions are in proximity to the recently...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 14, 2008) - Atacama Minerals Corp. ("Atacama" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:AAM) is pleased to announce that it has acquired a large land package in a major new potash region in northeastern Brazil. Application has been made for exploration permits in the state of Bahia covering 1,444 square kilometers (357,000 acres) of lands located 30 kilometres west of the port city of Salvador. The "Salvador Potash Project" is located along the Atlantic...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b73076/2008_anthracite) has announced the addition of the "2008 Anthracite & Coke Market Forecast" report to their offering. There is clear reverse distribution in China between her coal resources and water resources, and consumption between the two. China is a water-poor country, and the average annual water resources are about 2.8 trillion cubic meters. The per capita consumption is only 1 / 4 of the world's per capita...
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The Flint Hills, known historically as Bluestern Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a group of hills located in eastern Kansas reaching into north central Oklahoma, extending from Marshall County and Washington County in Kansas in the north to Cowley County, Kansas and Osage and Kay counties in Oklahoma towards the south. The people of Oklahoma usually refer to the same geologic formation as the Osage Hills or “The Osage”. The Flint Hills are designated as a unique ecoregion due to it...
Celestite (SrSO4) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is also known as celestine and is named for its occasional delicate blue color. Celestite occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive and fibrous forms. It is mostly found in sedimentary rocks, often associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. The mineral is found worldwide, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens are found in Madagascar.
Chert is a fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It varies greatly in color from white to black, but most often manifests as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty red; its color is an expression of trace elements present in the rock, and both red and green are most often related to traces of iron (in its oxidized and reduced forms respectively). It outcrops as nodules in limestone, chalk, and dolostone formations as a...
In geology, a conglomerate is a rock consisting of other stones that have been cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of subangular clasts and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts. Both conglomerates and breccias are characterized by clasts larger than sand (>2 mm). There are two varieties of conglomerate, defined by texture: paraconglomerates and orthoconglomerates. Paraconglomerates are one of two varieties of conglomerate...
Dolomite is a mineral (formula CaMg(CO3)2) consisting of a calcium magnesium carbonate found in crystals and in beds as dolostone. A pure form of dolostone would be rare, however; it usually intergrades with limestone and is referred to as dolomitic limestone, or in old U. S. geologic literature as magnesian limestone. Dolomite has physical properties similar to those of the mineral calcite, but is less soluble in hydrochloric acid. There is uncertainty as to the cause of its formation,...
