Coal reaching $100 a ton in Europe boosts greener alternatives

Already battered by increasingly onerous regulations on pollution from power generation, U.S. coal miners are now suffering the impact of cheap natural gas on the industry.

It marks the end of a three-century industry that once employed over a million workers in the U.K.

Production continues at all the mines.

They argue Potash Corp's main objective is to seize its rival's ambitious Legacy project in southern Saskatchewan and scale it back.

The former mining town of Centralia, in Pennsylvania, has been on fire since 1962, when a coal seam running into a mine shaft set on fire. It hasn't stopped ever since.

Coal market prices continued to trade under pressure in June, with weather retaining shoulder-season qualities in the primary coal using regions.

The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.

Today's infographic compares how 14 different asset classes have performed during the last five crises.

Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.