Before its emergence in biotech via a reverse merger, Forbes noted, the company had been a mining exploration outfit in Vancouver, B.
The SEC has brought stock fraud charges against convicted stock swindler Tommy Quinn, alleging he was behind a scam called Sundance Gold Mining Exploration Inc.
Exchange-traded funds like the IAU and GLD offer quick exposure to the metal, but the real action is in the mining and exploration companies.
Randgold Resources is an international gold mining and exploration business.
The idea of working with a private equity company like Blackstone is that BHP would be able to take Alcoa's core mining and exploration assets and then carve off other, unwanted units for its partner.
Alan Garcia, as president from 2006-2011, opened up the Amazon to mining and oil exploration and drilling.
Second, the promise of less regulation, which could help certain sectors like coal mining and oil exploration that have been under the wrath of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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He says the main reason why India remains under-explored is that mining leases and exploration licenses have not been given for large areas, even when there are indicative gold reserves.
This new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
No other annual convention for mineral exploration and mining draws a crowd of this size.
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The same is true of exploration and mining companies.
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There are a rising number of private exploration and putative mining players and promising finds in places like Kvanefjeld Greenland, or Steenkamposkraal South Africa.
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If ratified by Congress, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, seabed mining, and fishing rights.
When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
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The company is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
Exxon Mobil is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
If approved, it will grant a Kingston, Jamaica-based International Seabed Authority (ISA) the power to regulate deep-sea oil exploration, and seabed mining.
Since the merger announcement, US Gold and Minera have outperformed gold and silver, as well as the McEwen Junior Gold Index launched two years ago for exploration-stage junior mining companies, McEwen noted.
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Hecla has traditionally been among the largest and lowest-cost silver producers in the U.S. Besides its Greens Creek and Lucky Friday mines, the company has exploration properties in four other mining districts in the U.S. and Mexico.
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Meanwhile, major international banks that were previously bullish on gold have been turning bearish and dramatically cutting their forecasts, and gold mining companies have been significantly cutting production and exploration efforts, not a sign that they believe the price decline is only temporary.
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Experts in the industry, and executives of operating and exploration projects, cover subjects from risks in mining to new prospective areas for mining around the world to commodity market outlooks.
Mining companies spent little on research and development, or on exploration, in the 1990s and were slow to get going again.
In Ecuador Turner and Ecclestone recommend Aurelian Resources, a Canadian gold, silver and base metals exploration company that controls 235, 000 acres of mining concessions.
Now, the legacy of all that research and exploration is the growing likelihood of large-scale mining operations, fuelled by rising mineral prices, in many parts of the ocean in the coming decades.
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There is also an exploration unit engaged in tie-ups with other mining companies to prospect for gold, diamond and coal (its main tin reserves at Bangka are expected to last only another decade).
Newmont Mining Corp. is engaged in the production of gold, the exploration for gold and the acquisition and development of gold properties worldwide.
Like junior companies in mining, the independents now conduct much of the industry's exploration for oil in relatively uncharted areas, their share price rocketing if they strike lucky.
The exploration and production company is an old spin-off of the mining firm.
Pacific Rim acquired a firm that already had an exploration permit, a sort of phase-one permit in the mining world that allows companies to explore an area and determine whether mining would make sense there.
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With a portfolio of 26 operating mines and advanced exploration and development projects, Toronto-based Barrick Corporation is the largest gold mining company in the world.
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