Liberty Gold Corp. has acquired a 60 percent interest McCord Creek Property gold project in central Alaska's Tolovana Mining District.

Liberty Gold will be the project's operator.

The McCord Creek project comprises 14 State mining claims located 70 miles northwest of Fairbanks in the Tintina Gold Belt, which has produced nearly 30 million ounces of gold to date and has experienced accelerated gold exploration, development, and mining activity over the years.

Gulf Warehousing Company had a successful year in 2011 and is within sight of completing one of the finest logistics complexes in the Middle East: its-state-of-the-art Logistics Village Qatar.

Premier Foods, the UK’s largest food producer, has reached an agreement to sell its vinegar and sour pickles business to Mizkan for £41 million.

The sale, which includes the Sarson’s, Haywards and Dufrais brands, is expected to complete by the end of July 2012.

The agreement marks the latest stage in the company’s strategy to prioritise investment into its eight ‘Power Brands’ and divest selected non-core businesses.

Romarco Minerals has renegotiated a number of key contracts to re-align equipment deliveries for the development of the Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina.

Last month, Romarco received a schedule from the US Army Corps of Engineers for completing the Environmental Impact Statement for the Federal 404 Wetlands permit. The schedule gives the decision date for the permit as 16 August 2013, somewhat later than Romarco had anticipated.

French manufacturer Soitec has announced the completion and grid connection of the largest concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant in Italy.

Located in the Belpasso municipality in Sicily’s Catania province, the 1.17 MW-peak (MWp) facility is now ready to generate clean, reliable electricity for the local power grid.

The utility-scale plant will generate enough electricity to supply approximately 300 homes each year and is expected to offset more than 125 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

After nearly a year of planning and preparation in the design phase, Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Indiana, has broken ground on its $109 million building expansion- the Beacon Project.

The project consists of a 200,000 square foot, five-story, 120-bed inpatient tower to be known as Gibault Memorial, as well as a redesign of key health care service areas and upgrade of the hospital’s critical engineering systems.

Productivity suffers when employees become emotionally disconnected from their work. Could this be why the world economy is in the doldrums, asks Richard Telofski?

Despite the contribution mining makes to any economy there are always plenty of hoops to be climbed through as Alan Swaby learns in conversation with one of Canada’s representative bodies.

There is no escaping the fact that extraction of mineral resources from the earth and its oceans is not sustainable in the long-term. However, there are ways in which the industry can work to a more sustainable model.