Energy Top Stories

New catalyst can turn CO2 into gasoline 1,000 times more efficiently

Stanford University researchers developed a new catalyst that increases the production of long-chain hydrocarbons from captured CO2.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | February 22, 2022 | 5:05 am

Oil surges as Ukraine tensions mount and market giants bullish

West Texas Intermediate traded near $94 a barrel and Brent…

Bloomberg News | February 21, 2022 | 3:32 pm

Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion soars to over $16 billion

The Trudeau government says it will not commit any more…

Nelson Bennett - Business in Vancouver | February 21, 2022 | 2:10 pm

China signals coal reliance to continue with three new mines

China’s top planning agency approved three different billion-dollar coal mine…

Bloomberg News | February 21, 2022 | 8:53 am

Teck pilots electric transport truck at Highland Valley copper operations

Pilot marks the first use of a battery-electric truck to…

MINING.com Editor | February 18, 2022 | 12:35 pm

Venezuela pays miner $425m in move to safeguard Citgo

If the required steps to fully implement the amended settlement do not take place Crystallex will go back to court to seize assets linked to Citgo.

Bloomberg News | November 26, 2018 | 4:06 pm

Goldman predicts commodities will soar in 2019 as oil, gold climb

Many of the political uncertainties weighing on commodity markets have a significant chance of being addressed in Buenos Aires.

Reuters | November 26, 2018 | 9:58 am

Saudi Arabia targets $64B in mining revenue by 2030

Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.

Reuters | November 26, 2018 | 9:06 am

MacMines Australia gets environmental nod for mega coal mine in Queensland

The company's 20,000-hectare China Stone thermal coal project is expected to produce 38 million tonnes of coal annually.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2018 | 5:38 am

Rio Tinto sells stake in Rossing uranium mine to China

The company is selling its 69%-stake in Rossing Uranium Limited, which owns the Namibian mine, to China National Uranium Corporation (CNUC).

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2018 | 3:20 am

Oil heads for seventh weekly loss on signs of global supply glut

Demand for Saudi crude may be lower in January compared with December - Khalid Al-Falih

Reuters | November 23, 2018 | 9:42 am

UK’s Banks Mining wins challenge to government rejection of new coal mine

Britain's High Court quashed the government's rejection of the new mine on the grounds that the minister did not provide adequate evidence for his decision.

Reuters | November 23, 2018 | 9:26 am

Sibanye shuts gold mines in South Africa as strike turns violent

Operations at Driefontein, Kloof and Beatrix mines were halted late on Wednesday.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 22, 2018 | 5:58 am

Global oil demand under growing threat from electric cars, cleaner fuel

Analysis shows oil consumption growing in coming decades, due to rising petrochemicals, trucking and aviation demand but meeting this growth in the near term means that approvals of conventional oil projects need to double.

Reuters | November 21, 2018 | 3:46 pm

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