Most profitable mining companies in 2017

The company will hear by June 30 whether it will be allowed to mine polyhalite, a type of potash fertilizer, from a deposit located under Brittan’s North York Moors national park.

Teck is facing sanctions over infractions that include openings in the deposit where the ore is stored and a failure to build sufficient water infrastructure.

Until now Canadian companies needed to have at least 51% stake in any uranium project.

Collectively, Canada's energy sector lost more than $600 million in the first three months of this year, and the Canadian economy shrank in the same period, as the collapse in oil prices took its toll.

In recent months the mine has been pumped out and now the company is working on fixing existing power lines and bringing equipment to the site.

The probe focused on a 2010 deal through which the company gave a 9% of its South Deep mine to a group of black investors in order to meet government’s regulations aimed to boost black ownership.

Hobbled by too much supply and not enough demand, especially in China, the coal needed to produce steel has fallen to levels not seen since 2004.

In this post I revisit the energy production and consumption data for China looking for clues about the future direction of global energy markets.

Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions, this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.