Rare earth element (REE) mining company Altona Energy plc has taken its projects in East Africa a step further following the granting of a three-year exploration licence. The company said that Leadway Group Ltd, with which it signed a heads of agreement on 21 September, had been awarded a three-year exploration licence for its tenement […]
Month: November 2024
Banks will not challenge refusal for new coal mine
Banks Mining said it would not challenge the Government’s decision to reject its plans for a surface coal mine in Highthorn, Northumberland but will pursue its proposed Dewley Hill mine, west of Newcastle. The company’s Dewley Hill application is expected to be discussed by the City Council’s planning committee before the end of the 2020. […]
Cuadrilla shale site emits methane equal to 142 LON-NY flights
Cuadrilla plc’s hydraulic fracturing at its shale gas site in Lancashire led to an atmospheric venting of 4.2 tonnes of methane gas in one week, said the British Geological Survey (BGS). The company, now 97% owned by Australian mining firm AJ Lucas, was operating in the Bowland shale (Preston) until the Government introduced a moratorium […]
IGas to convert methane into hydrogen at southeast sites
IGas Energy plc said it aimed to produce hydrogen from its existing methane resources after entering a heads of agreement with a US manufacturer of modular hydrogen generation systems. The oil and gas explorer and developer said it had identified two of its exisiting sites in the south east of England where the gas resource could […]
Oil and gas workers fell 4,000 due to UK Covid-19 rules
Approximately 4,000 employees on offshore oil and gas installations had to stop working when Covid-19 restrictions were enforced during March in the UK. Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) said that the average weekly personnel on board, especially in drilling and construction, decreased from around 11,000 on the 8 March to just over 7,000 a month […]
Alba Mineral appoints Mark Austin as COO
Alba Mineral Resources plc has appointed its senior geologist Mark Austin as full-time chief operating officer. He will be responsible for the company’s day-to-day mining projects in north Wales, Greenland and Ireland. Mr Austin has management and operational experience in a career spanning four decades across a range of commodities, but with a particular focus […]