Energy Top Stories

How the IEA embraced its role as an energy oracle in the climate transition

The agency has become the subject of increasing controversy in the past decade over its influence on efforts to stabilize the climate and shift away from fossil fuels.

Bloomberg News | October 20, 2021 | 10:22 pm

Impact of Carmichael coal mine on Doongmabulla Springs not understood — study

Researchers from Flinders University say that without better knowledge of…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 20, 2021 | 5:15 am

China weighs coal market intervention to end stunning rally

“The current price increase has completely deviated from the fundamentals…

Bloomberg News | October 19, 2021 | 2:50 pm

Video: Uranium in the stars and on the cards

Uranium got a bad reputation as a fuel used by…

MINING.com Editor | October 14, 2021 | 3:39 pm

Billionaire miner sees next fortune in rush for clean energy

Andrew Forrest has been scouring the planet’s far-flung regions including…

Bloomberg News | October 13, 2021 | 10:14 pm

Australia’s South32 beats annual coking coal output guidance

Australian miner South32 Ltd beat its coking coal output guidance for fiscal 2018.

Reuters | July 19, 2018 | 12:48 pm

Miners wrote off almost one-third of investments over last decade

From the $939bn invested in major projects between 2008 and 2017, the world’s top 40 mining companies by market cap. wrote-off $273bn or 29% of the initial capital outlay.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 19, 2018 | 3:43 am

Trade war spills into uranium as U.S. weighs import tariffs

The Trump administration began an investigation into whether uranium imports threaten national security, a move that may lead to tariffs on the nuclear power plant fuel.

Reuters | July 18, 2018 | 11:03 am

Greece shortlists Glencore and Vitol in Hellenic Petroleum majority stake sale

Greece has shortlisted Anglo-Swiss Glencore and Swiss Vitol to submit a binding bid for a majority stake in the country's biggest oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum

Reuters | July 18, 2018 | 10:24 am

BHP posts record annual iron ore output, beats Q4 forecasts

Shares in the miner jumped more than 3% after both quarterly and full-year production rose 3% on improved productivity.

Reuters | July 18, 2018 | 5:38 am

Peru unit of Plateau Energy finds one of ‘world’s largest’ lithium resource

Company plans to complete a feasibility study next year, which will reveal whether the proposed $800 million, underground lithium-uranium mine can and should be built.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 18, 2018 | 3:14 am

Earth holds quadrillion tonnes of diamonds deep beneath its surface

Getting to them would take technology far beyond what we currently have at our disposal.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 18, 2018 | 1:15 am

LME to launch monthly ‘implied pricing’ for base metals

Starting on July 30, the LME will start providing a set of synthetic monthly prices for the six main base metals — copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and tin.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 17, 2018 | 5:25 am

Four miners killed in Georgia in coal mine accident, officials say

The government will close the mine until an investigation is complete and it gets the conclusions of international experts.

Reuters | July 16, 2018 | 10:22 am

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