2 Negros Occ. mines under exploration.
Two prospective copper-gold projects in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental are undergoing separate exploration and feasibility studies in a hope of being put into production perhaps up to 2010. Colet Mining and Development Corp. (CMDC), Filipino affiliate of the London Stock Exchange-Alternative Investment Market-listed Copper Resources Corp. is...

Bronze Age tin mine found in Turkey.
Excavation of a nearly 5,000-year-old tin mine in Turkey provides the first evidence o! intensive local production of the metal in the Middle East during the Bronze Age, a University o[ Chicago archaeologist announced last week. Although tin is crucial to bronze production, many scholars argue that...

Mine touring in Nevada.
The grizzled prospector who once panned and tunneled for gold and silver has faded into Nevada history. But mining still holds a firm place in the state's economy; last year, some 200 mines coaxed about 700,000 troy ounces of gold from the earth. You can learn about modern mining techniques...

Atlas Mining unit to invest P12 B to reopen Toledo mine; Used to be biggest coal mine in the Far East.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Carmen Copper Corp., wholly-owned unit of Atlas Mining Consolidated and Development Corp., is investing P12.475 billion to reopen and rehabilitate the Toledo mine in Cebu, which used to be the biggest coal mine in the Far East. The project was among the...

Cornwall: areas of outstanding natural beauty: head to any of Cornwall's 12 AONBs to see rugged coastal scenery, open moorland, Cornish hedges and perhaps even the county's favorite bird.
"Keep an eye on that cave opening, they've been darting in and out every 35-40 minutes since dawn," says a muffled west-country accent from behind a turned-up collar and hood, tightly fastened against the brisk on shore winds. It's nearly 3pm. Had this Royal Society for the Protection of...

P/$ rate closes at P54.58 to $1.
The peso rate closed lower at P54.58 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P54.49 last Friday. The weighted average rate depreciated to P54.505 from P54.496. Total volume amounted to $282.1 million. Lepanto mine strike called...

Gold exports to recover with high prices.
Gold is likely to recover as a major Philippine export fuelled by the precious metal's record-breaking prices that now threaten to breach the $ 1,000 mark an ounce. At present prices, mining, even through its most expensive method of underground extraction, has turned viable again. ...

Philex obtains $8.5-M loan for mine project.
Philex Mining Corporation has signed an $8.5 million loan agreement with a syndicate of banks principally to finance the underground development of its Padcal mine. The firm said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) yesterday that the Bank of Commerce, Philippine National Bank and...

Nigel Jones, Mark Walters & Pat Frost. Mountain and Orefields: Metal Mining Landscapes of Mid and North-East Wales.
NIGEL JONES, MARK WALTERS & PAT FROST. Mountain and orefields: metal mining landscapes of mid and north-east Wales (CBA Research Report 142). xvi+192 pages, 140 figures. 2004. York: Council for British Archaeology; 1-902771-47-8 paperback 19.95 [pounds sterling]. This volume forms the publication of a series of 1990s...

Phelps Dodge eyeing Batong Buhay mine.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA New York-listed Phelps Dodge, now deemed world's largest copper producer, has expressed interest to bid for the state-owned Batong Buhay copper-gold project in Pasil, Kalinga to boost the commercial viability of its several mining exploration prospects in the Batong Buhay vicinity. ...