Energy Top Stories

Cameco, Orano up stake in Cigar Lake uranium mine

The uranium producers are buying Idemitsu Canada Resources’ 7.9% interest in the asset for about $144m.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 11, 2022 | 3:53 am

A coal mining hub could decide Australia’s future

A coal-mining community that has elected the same political party…

Bloomberg News | May 10, 2022 | 2:05 pm

Africa’s accelerated energy transition should leave no-one behind

Africa faces a generational opportunity to create new supply chains…

Henry Lazenby | May 10, 2022 | 12:11 pm

New data on uranium’s behaviour revealed by fastest supercomputer in the US

An important but little-studied uranium compound could be key to…

Staff Writer | May 10, 2022 | 5:04 am

China’s green Belt and Road push leaves plenty of grey areas

Developers asked to proceed with “caution” when it comes to…

Bloomberg News | May 9, 2022 | 1:35 pm

Australia approves Cameco’s controversial uranium mine

Developing Yeelirrie, one of Australia’s biggest undeveloped uranium deposit, will depend on market conditions, said the company.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 26, 2019 | 4:45 pm

The brash billionaire who wants to make Australia great again

Clive Palmer, who made his fortune in mining, is running for the Senate on his right-of-center United Australia Party ticket.

Bloomberg News | April 25, 2019 | 11:59 am

Around the world, buyers’ remorse sets in for costly clean power

Two decades ago, governments and utilities around the world began offering above-market rates and contracts to fuel the rise of clean energy, but now these pacts are under attack.

Bloomberg News | April 25, 2019 | 9:32 am

Canadian miners start 2019 off on the right foot amid mega-deals

Ernst & Young’s Canadian Mining Eye index — which tracks the performance of 100 Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange mid-tier and junior mining companies — rose 5% fin the January-March period.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 25, 2019 | 9:16 am

Sirius Minerals secures European supply deal for its $5B fertilizer mine

The company has found in BayWa, a Germany agribusiness, a partner that will distribute the fertilizer Sirius plans to produce from its Woodsmith mine in Europe.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 25, 2019 | 3:41 am

China said to maintain Australia coal go-slow until after polls

China will maintain a slowdown in coal imports from Australia until Beijing has assessed government policy in Canberra after federal elections in May.

Bloomberg News | April 24, 2019 | 3:45 pm

‘Land no one else wants’ gets solar as coal-and-nukes era fades

Solar and wind farms are being developed or built in places not normally associated with clean energy, and in some regions long resistant to it.

Bloomberg News | April 24, 2019 | 11:53 am

Top miners back autonomous systems guidelines

The document divides operations into six levels, from zero (entirely manual) to five (fully autonomous), and assists in the preparation of a business case for autonomous mining, depending on level and needs.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 24, 2019 | 8:55 am

ALX executes agreement to earn 51% interest in the Close Lake uranium project

ALX and Orano are on the verge of initiating a multi-year exploration program with the goal of locating a new, high-grade uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 24, 2019 | 6:51 am

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