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Plans to source 25 per cent of the U.S. military’s energy needs from renewable means by 2025 present an almighty challenge, requiring massive energy projects capable of generating an estimated 2.1 million megawatt-hours of power per annum. This carries a hefty price tag, rumoured to total ...
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Plans to source 25 per cent of the U.S. military’s energy needs from renewable means by 2025 present an almighty challenge, requiring massive energy projects capable of generating an estimated 2.1 million megawatt-hours of power per annum. This carries a hefty price tag, rumoured to total ...
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by Dwayne Matthews
There has been lots of buzz around the BRIC countries and the emerging markets. The speed of growth in these markets have left investors drooling and chomping at the bit. There has been specific focus on China as their growth and scale has been fantastically impressive.
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Last month Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans to nationalise the South American country’s gold mining industry and said that gold reserves held abroad would be brought home.Chavez said that the reserves would be safer in Venezuela than in countries facing mounting debt worries such as ...
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In the April issue of IRJ, we introduced you the Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR), the sector council for the Canadian minerals and metals industry, and MiHR Innovate, the latest resource developed by the Council to share knowledge and effective HR practices and initiatives. With ...
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Scratching the surface of Canada’s newest mining hotspots
Golden Band Resources (GBN:TSX.V) is perhaps one of Canada’s biggest mining stars in a little known but highly prospective gold region in Saskatchewan. GBN has brought the spotlight back on the La Ronge gold belt in Northern Saskatchewan when in January 2011, it poured its first
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The answer to HDD drilling needs in Brazil
INTECH Engenharia is a market leaderDemand for horizontal directional drilling (HDD) continues to surge all over the world, particularly in Brazil’s tremendous oil and gas industry. With its big players like Petrobras spearheading development, huge projects, and companies like HDD expert INTECH Engenharia (“INTECH”) South
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A pure play, two horizons, and heaps of potential in one small vehicle
WHY MAKO ENERGY CONTINUES TO COMMAND INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION FROM THE OIL AND GAS COMMUNITYLong the preserve of Calgary’s moribund conventional oil-sector, the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is currently commanding great interest and is even the subject of a little intrigue. With 77 billion barrels of
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A major coal play for Chile in a time of overwhelming demand
Global demand for coal continues to rocket: fact.  Demand is expected to reach 9.98 billion tonnes by 2030, clearly signifying how pressing it is that we develop operations today to quench high requirements in the years to come. It is estimated that in Chile alone demand
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Relishing the importance of potash
Since Vancouver-based Western Potash Corp. last spoke with The International Resource Journal in 2009, the company has experienced plenty of growth and expansion. Today, Western Potash owns more than 860,000 acres of potash permits and applications in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and aims to
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