UN says IPCC’s climate report “code red for humanity”First major assessment from the UN-backed experts committee in nearly a decade sees no end to rising temperatures before 2050.Cecilia Jamasmie | August 9, 2021 | 8:04 am
Indonesia suspends coal exports from 34 mining companiesCompanies failed to meet domestic market obligations between January and…Reuters | August 9, 2021 | 7:44 am
How fossil fuels can help decarbonize the economyExperts at Rice University say one of the keys to…MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 7, 2021 | 10:29 am
Which has the bigger economy: Texas or Russia? Even though Russia has nearly five times as many residents as Texas, the Lone Star State's economy is more than $40 billion larger. Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | April 16, 2018 | 10:54 am
IMF resumes lending to Chad following Glencore debt deal The Central African oil producer reached an agreement in principle to restructure its more than $1 billion debt to Glencore and four banks. Reuters | April 15, 2018 | 5:18 pm
Senate confirms former coal lobbyist to be EPA’s number two Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be EPA’s deputy administrator by a vote of 53 to 45. Bloomberg News | April 13, 2018 | 11:07 am
Major banks earned more in metals than oil last year The world’s 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year. Reuters | April 13, 2018 | 10:46 am
Poor left out of mining profits as ‘resource curse’ hits Kenya There were cases of displacement of communities, workers subjected to unsafe conditions, as well as soil, water and air pollution. Reuters | April 12, 2018 | 2:03 pm
Glencore is losing billionaire allies to Trump’s sanctions In just four months, Glencore Plc chief Ivan Glasenberg has lost two of his closest business allies, billionaires Oleg Deripaska and Dan Gertler. Bloomberg News | April 12, 2018 | 1:31 pm
Coal dead? Peak oil demand? Five takes on fossil fuels’ future Mining mogul Bob Murray offered a passionate defense of coal, asserting that we’d all “die in the dark” without it. Bloomberg News | April 12, 2018 | 11:50 am
Coal mogul’s novel plan to save coal is to buy it: Gadfly Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., has a novel idea to save U.S. coal: buy the stuff himself. Bloomberg Opinion | April 12, 2018 | 9:48 am
Iran to transfer yellowcake to uranium conversion facility The uranium from which the yellowcake was derived was originally extracted from the Saghand mine. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | April 9, 2018 | 6:20 pm