MACARTHUR, LEYTE -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) will investigate the impact of magnetite sand mining exploration on rice farms in Javier town in Leyte.

Preservationists want the site of the bloody southern West Virginia battle over union organizing in 1921 protected from surface coal mining.

Ernestina Palmira Cuna and her family watched the riots in Mozambique on television from their tin-roof house, afraid to go outside and get caught in the violent price protests raging around them.

HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) -- A plan to open a gravel and sand mine in eastern Missouri has angered some area residents, who say it would hurt their property values and create too much noise.

AS the State Government experts were tangled in microphone cable, it was all too apparent the panel had come ill-prepared.

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The South-West property plunge has hit a new low, with one desperate seller reducing his Dunsborough home by $1.35 million, or almost half, and throwing in the furniture free.

RENO, NV--(Marketwire - August 30, 2010) - Gold American Mining Corp. ( OTCBB : SILA ) ("Gold American" and/or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has received the final ground geophysics report on its Guadalupe property and confirms that the recently concluded geophysics program has identified multiple potentially significant geophysical anomalies.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Strategic Mining announced today that it has made arrangements to purchase a Boart Longyear LF 70 diamond core angular drill rig. The company plans to begin this fall the drilling program outlined by company geologist, Hassan Alief, in the 43-101 report.

Australian property trusts face a positive outlook as property prices stabilise and gearing falls after companies delivered mostly strong earnings.

RENO, NV--(Marketwire - August 30, 2010) - Gold American Mining Corp. ( OTCBB : SILA ) ("Gold American" and/or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has received the final ground geophysics report on its Guadalupe property and confirms that the recently concluded geophysics program has identified multiple potentially significant geophysical anomalies.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Strategic Mining announced today that it has made arrangements to purchase a Boart Longyear LF 70 diamond core angular drill rig. The company plans to begin this fall the drilling program outlined by company geologist, Hassan Alief, in the 43-101 report.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2010) - Ascot Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:AOT) ("Ascot") is very pleased to announce the drilling has commenced as of September 1, 2010 on the Mt. Margaret property in the St. Helens Mining district of Skamania county in Washington state. Ascot is drilling the first of an initial 14 hole diamond drill program within the historic deposit to ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orosur Mining Inc. (

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Paul Eaton moved to Karratha 10 years ago with a fledgling building business. Now he and his 40 employees can