EY appoints new global mining and metals leader

Fission is up 8.7% to 75 cents.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Chamber of Mines, which has been negotiating on behalf of the country’s main coal producers, will sign the agreement later today.

The causes of the deadly incident at the operation, located in central Bosnia, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Sarajevo, are unclear.

Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) totaled 31.2 million barrels per day (b/d) in September, down 60,000 b/d from August as Saudi Arabia further reined in supply, according to a just-released Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts.

Since 2009, China has been taking a much more active role in its pursuit of international oil contracts.

The decline in coal share prices has affected the pensions of millions of bus drivers, librarians, park attendants, school workers, housing officers and care workers, a new study from Platform London shows.

Mick Davis' X2 Resources has emerged as the last remaining bidder for Rio Tinto’s coal assets in Australia’s Hunter Valley.

A few years ago, there was a perception that private equity was going to come in and wash away the junior sector's worries about insufficient capital.

Helicopters, drones search 16,000 square km area sealed off to find perpetrators of knife attack that killed 60 workers at a northwestern Chinese coal mine.