He has rejected a recommendation by the Commerce Department to require US power producers to source up to 25% of their uranium from domestic mines, creating instead a working group to review the country’s nuclear fuel supply chain.
World Bank tribunal rules in favour of Tethyan Copper, a joint venture between the Chilean copper miner and Canada’s gold giant after seven-year battle.
It wants to raise £1m to support further drilling for subterranean lithium-bearing brines in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, south-west England.
It currently has two thermal coal units — NSW Energy Coal in Australia and Cerrejón in Colombia —, which are expected to generate just 4% of the company’s earnings this year.