Energy Top Stories

Gold price rally lifts value of top 50 mining companies above $1 trillion for the first time

The Top 50 most valuable mining companies added $80.2 billion in market capitalization over the three months to end September.

MINING.com Editor | October 8, 2020 | 9:24 am

BHP freezes membership of lobby group over Greens campaign

The Queensland Resources Council stepped up its advocacy against the…

Reuters | October 7, 2020 | 9:33 am

UK Gov’t temporarily halts coal mine approval

West Cumbria Mining's Woodhouse Colliery would be the nation’s first…

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 5, 2020 | 6:56 am

Vanilla redox-flow batteries are now a thing

Scientists have found a way to make the energy storage…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 5, 2020 | 6:30 am

UK’s first new deep coal mine in 30 years approved

Move threatens to undermine the government’s pledge to be carbon…

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 2, 2020 | 9:51 am

This firm may make coal’s future a lot brighter

Australia’s Dotz Nano has found a new use for coal that could be a welcome boost to the dying industry, particularly in the US.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 3, 2017 | 3:49 am

Can Trump dig coal out of its slump?

Flanked by coal workers, President Donald Trump signed the American Energy Independence Executive Order this week, directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama’s signature environmental policy.

U.S. Global Investors | April 3, 2017 | 12:38 am

Areva faces “uranium-gate” in Niger

French nuclear power giant Areva is reportedly cooperating with a legal enquiry by activists who say the company cheated Niger out of $3.25 million in uranium exports.

Andrew Topf | April 2, 2017 | 5:45 pm

Solar now employs more people in the US than coal and natural gas

Solar power, once derided as an expensive and unreliable energy source, has become a major generator of employment in the United States, according to new data supplied by The Solar Foundation.

Andrew Topf | April 2, 2017 | 3:59 pm

Vedanta CEO Tom Albanese to leave company in August

The news follows the exit of former Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll, who stepped down last month.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 31, 2017 | 4:15 am

There is no such thing as peak oil demand

If oil demand were to reach an actual peak, then the top might be easier to predict. As it stands, the forecast models of demand are likely predicting peak demand far later than it will be.

Oilprice.com | March 30, 2017 | 2:12 pm

Thermal coal price rally to hold

New report predicts the price of seaborne coal used in power generation to consolidate 2016's sharp gains.

Frik Els | March 29, 2017 | 4:49 pm

Miners to spend $21 billion on exploration by 2025

Equipment and services suppliers will have to wait at least another year until they can fully feel the impact of this trend, says CSA Global — the world's second-largest mining sector consultancy.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 29, 2017 | 6:35 am

Trump signs executive order undoing Obama’s clean power plan

He has instruct has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and rewrite it.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 28, 2017 | 11:55 am

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