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THE WESTERN Australian Government has opened a second geothermal acreage release for 2009 following the earlier high level of bidding for exploration rights in the Perth and Carnarvon basins.
29/05/2009 |
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THE MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore says the Western Australia Government has started proceedings to prosecute exploration and drilling company, Apache Northwest and its co-licensees in relation to the Varanus Island incident.
29/05/2009 |
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MACQUARIE Drilling says that it is nearing the completion of a major geotechnical drilling programme for the Sydney Metro Project.
28/05/2009 |
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THUNDELARRA Exploration says that assay results from drilling at the Thunderball Prospect in the Northern Territory shows high grade uranium.
27/05/2009 |
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CORTONA Resources says it will add a second drilling rig to its Majors Creek Gold Project, New South Wales, following promising assay results from recent RC drilling.
27/05/2009 |
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ATLAS Copco has released two new versions of its well proven COP 1838 hydraulic rock drill - the COP 1838MUX and COP 1838HUX - which are intended for use in underground long-hole drilling.
The manufacturer says that the rock drills have been equipped with external flushing head, a feature that are now standard on all Atlas Copco tophammer rock drills that have extractor unit for back hammering in underground long-hole drilling.
27/05/2009 |
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CONQUEST Mining has commenced a new drilling initiative to explore for additional mineralisation beneath the current known resources at its Mt Carlton gold-silver copper project near Charters Towers in Queensland.
26/05/2009 |
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PARADIGM Metals has commenced drilling at its wholly-owned Rosedale gold-silver project, New South Wales.
26/05/2009 |
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REX Minerals has announced that it will employ additional drilling capacity at its News South Wales and South Australia operations following successful capital raining.
25/05/2009 |
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ADELAIDE Energy and Beach Petroleum have partnered to further explore the Cooper Basin, South Australia for large tight gas deposits.
25/05/2009 |
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THE CSIRO and the Victorian Department of Primary Industry (VicDPI) are joining forces to explore for new oil and gas reserves in Victoria's sedimentary basins.
22/05/2009 |
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ENVIRONMENT Minister Donna Faragher has announced the environmental approval of the Apache-Devil Creek Development Project subject to stringent conditions.
22/05/2009 |
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MOSAIC Oil has announced that wet weather has delayed the rigging for nitrogen drilling at the Churchie-11 gas/condensate development well in the Surat-Bowen Basin, Queensland.
22/05/2009 |
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ORICA forecasts profit growth for an eight straight year despite the recession and subsequent decline in the mining sector.
21/05/2009 |
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KAROON Gas says that testing at its Posidon gas well resource in Western Australia has been delayed after a drilling tool got caught in the well.
21/05/2009 |
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CORVETTE Resources and the CSIRO have joined forces to undertake a collaborative study which will improve the geological understanding of the gold belt and Corvette mineralisation.
20/05/2009 |
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THE MINING Services industry has been greatly affected by the recession and subsequent downturn in the mining sector.
20/05/2009 |
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ANCHOR Resources says that a rig has arrived on site to commence drilling at the Wild Cattle Creek antimony deposit, in New South Wales.
19/05/2009 |
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PANAX Geothermal has announced the arrival in Australia of the contract drilling rig that will be used for its first deep production well at the company’s Penola Project in South Australia’s Otway Basin.
19/05/2009 |
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THE BRUMBY Government and CSIRO have agreed to reduce exploration risk and attract new investment and jobs for exploration in Victoria.
18/05/2009 |
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The CSIRO has released a podcast which informs exploration companies on nature’s alternative to drilling.
18/05/2009 |
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THE STATE Government is building a stronger resources future with a 2009-10 budget of $108.2million to further develop Western Australia’s renewable energy and mining exploration.
15/05/2009 |
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RUNGE and GeoScience Victoria (GSV) have collaborated to devise an innovative system that allows GSV to create top-quality 3D models which will aid exploration companies.
15/05/2009 |
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NORTHERN Mining says that it will commence a 1,000M reverse circulation drilling programme in late May 2009 at May at Blair North Prospect in East Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
14/05/2009 |
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MOSAIC Oil says that the Churchie-11 gas/condensate development well was spudded on 8 May 2009.
14/05/2009 |
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INDONESIAN authorities say they will not pursue a criminal case against Lapindo Brantas.
13/05/2009 |
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BOW Energy has announced the start of an eight well exploration drilling and testing program on its Comet Block Coal Seam Gas (CSG) project (ATP 1025P) in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, with the aim of upgrading 2C resources to 3P certified gas reserves.
13/05/2009 |
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IMAGE Resources says that sample processing from its recent drilling programme on the Atlas deposit at Cooljarloo, Western Australia is now complete.
12/05/2009 |
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NORTHERN Territory Minister for Resources, Kon Vatskalis, has met with representatives from Business and Government in the city of Nanjing which is a centre for Chinese investment in mineral resources and exploration.
12/05/2009 |
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BOART Longyear says that it is considering a capital raising to help the company weather the recession.
12/05/2009 |
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HAVILAH Resources says its geologists have generated a detailed geological model of the Kalkaroo deposit, South Australia.
11/05/2009 |
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AUSTRALIA’S mining industry groups are hoping that the Federal Government delivers a helping hand to the resources sector this budget.
11/05/2009 |
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WOODSIDE Energy invited Year 10 students from Karratha Senior High School and St Luke’s College to learn about the 6 processes of the oil and gas industry.
11/05/2009 |
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SWAN Group says that it will resume diamond drilling in the week beginning 12 May 2009 at Silver Swans Austin prospect in Western Australia.
08/05/2009 |
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MINING companies have long debated the prospect of drilling the deep sea floor, but the difficulties involved with exploiting these resources have left a large majority of the planet’s resources untapped.
08/05/2009 |
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SANTOS is concerned that the impact of the recession on other companies will see Australia emerge from the downturn with a shortage of energy.
08/05/2009 |
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THE QUEENSLAND Resources Council (QRC) says the immediate implementation of a FTS scheme for Australian junior exploration companies would result in increased exploration expenditure of 10-30%.
07/05/2009 |
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THE NORTHERN Territory Government has approved the exploration plan submitted by Cameco Australia and Paladin Energy Minerals.
07/05/2009 |
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URANIUMSA says an initial resource estimate for its Blackbush Prospect located at the company’s 100% Mullaquana Project, on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is promising.
06/05/2009 |
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IAN Gould, of the South Australian Minerals and Petroleum Expert Group, wants the Federal Government to honour its election commitment to introduce a 'flow through shares' scheme.
06/05/2009 |
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MOSAIC Oil has announced that the Churchie-11 gas/condensate development well in the Surat-Bowen Basin in Queensland is expected to spud by the week ending May 8, 2009. MB Century Rig-7 is currently rigging up on the Churchie-11 site.
06/05/2009 |
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ORICA has announced that it still expects to book a higher underlying full year profit despite weaker markets in the second half.
05/05/2009 |
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ATLAS Copco is launching COP Care, a full-service agreement for hydraulic rock drills.
05/05/2009 |
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PHOENIX Copper says that it will commence a Rotary Air Blast drilling program if assay results from PCD002 and PCD003 are promising.
05/05/2009 |
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THE NRW Holdings and VDM Group joint venture has been awarded a $240m contract for bulk earthworks at CITIC Pacific’s Sino iron project at Cape Preston in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
04/05/2009 |
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MINING exploration companies are interested in a new digging technique that could make expensive drilling programs a thing of the past.
04/05/2009 |
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HEMISPHERE Resources says that in-house modelling has confirmed existing targets and delineated many new drilling target areas at its Glandore Gold Project, Western Australia.
01/05/2009 |
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THE TECHNOLOGY used in the development of Wii Fit-style interactive games could be applied in the Australian drilling industry to improve operations.
01/05/2009 |