Energy Top Stories

Polish Audit Office blasts KGHM acquisition of Chilean copper mine

The body, which looks into the way the Polish state operates and how it spends public funds, says the company has spent more than $5.2B in three years on the underperforming Sierra Gorda mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 15, 2019 | 3:05 am

South Africa’s Exxaro Resources FY earnings jump on higher coal prices

Exxaro's coal export volumes surged to a record 8 million…

Reuters | March 14, 2019 | 9:34 am

American Battery Metals ready to drill at Utah vanadium project

The 2019 campaign will include reverse circulation drilling of 10…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 14, 2019 | 6:41 am

Greece’s Public Power relaunches coal-fired power plants sale

PPC wants to conclude the sale by May and has…

Reuters | March 13, 2019 | 10:51 am

Mining’s dirty secret faces a climate reckoning

Producing a single metric ton of steel in a blast…

Bloomberg News | March 13, 2019 | 9:52 am

Freeport follows Anglo’s lead: suspends dividend, cuts spending, eyes assets sales

The U.S. miner became the latest mining company to announced drastic measures aimed at preserving cash amid a deepening commodity prices rout.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 9, 2015 | 10:08 am

US coal industry on board ‘slow-motion train wreck’— report

Analysts from McKinsey and Co. warn the U.S. is currently home to a collection of “zombie mines” that cannot turn a profit, but are too costly to close.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 9, 2015 | 7:11 am

FortisBC to start converting trucks to LNG at Teck’s Fording River coal mine in BC

Blending the diesel with natural gas will reduce CO2 emission by 20%, according to a FortisBC press release.

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | December 9, 2015 | 2:41 am

INFOGRAPHIC: Visualizing Chinese Investment in Africa

We have said previously that Africa is the new land of opportunity for speculators and investors.

Visual Capitalist | December 9, 2015 | 2:18 am

Chinese commodity demand: Crisis. What crisis?

In volume terms Chinese imports of commodities led by iron ore and copper surged 17% in November, the best month in nearly two years.

Frik Els | December 8, 2015 | 12:13 pm

Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs, dividend and assets in sweeping restructuring

The job cuts, part of a major overhaul, are far greater than the 53,000 positions the miner said it would cut in July.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 8, 2015 | 7:54 am

Year-end inflection points: Dead ahead

It’s widely expected that the ECB and US Fed will drift even further apart in their basic policy stances this month.

Eric Coffin of HRA Advisories | December 8, 2015 | 12:01 am

Adani wants opposition to its coal mine in Australia to be over by law

The company wants an "indisputable and final" go-ahead for Carmichael, considered Australia’s largest thermal coal project ever.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 7, 2015 | 10:29 am

Canada to give aboriginals more say on resource projects- minister

Canada will give aboriginal groups more say in discussions over natural resource projects located on their territory, which should help pave the way for major pipelines and mines, the country's new energy minister said on Monday.

Daily News | December 7, 2015 | 5:11 am

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