Energy Top Stories

China’s slowdown is miners’ single biggest fear this year — report

Based on answers from 51 senior executives, lawyers White & Case say that trade tensions are the second largest challenge for the mining industry in 2019 and reveal what the underlying full-picture looks like.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2019 | 2:50 am

Spey Resources betting on vanadium

Spey decided to buy a property in Utah due to…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 17, 2019 | 7:03 am

Mining the Americas in 2019 — a forecast

Canada's cobalt sector and Ecuador's budding mining sector for copper…

MINING.com Editor | January 16, 2019 | 3:27 pm

China’s latest mine collapse could cut coal capacity by 100mtpa

Coal prices in Shenmu and Fugu have increased by RMB10-50/t…

Wood Mackenzie | January 16, 2019 | 7:22 am

Electric cars seen getting cleaner even where grids rely on coal

The global share of zero-carbon electricity generation is set to…

Bloomberg News | January 15, 2019 | 3:04 pm

Canadian mining stocks outperform metals prices

Canadian junior and mid-tier mining companies also raised 62% more capital in the second quarter than in 2014.

Frik Els | August 24, 2015 | 3:37 pm

Anglo American sells copper mines in Chile to UK investment firm

The price for the two assets could rise to $500m from $200m, depending on an eventual recovery of copper prices and the execution of an expansion plan for the Mantoverde mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 24, 2015 | 10:00 am

South32 survives mining sector slump, to cut $350m in costs until 2018

The company said is not keen on Rio Tinto's thermal coal assets, currently up for sale.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 24, 2015 | 5:18 am

China fresh sell-off sends commodities, markets to the pits

The US has suspended the futures market on the Nasdaq index, as panicking traders have driven it down 5% — the maximum allowed under Wall Street rules.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 24, 2015 | 2:16 am

Mining private equity is being fundamentally transformed

Appian Capital founder Michael Scherb: "You're now seeing the same changes in mining that happened in oil and gas which is now heavily supported by PE"

Frik Els | August 23, 2015 | 11:45 pm

Coal mine massacre during Solidarity-era Poland to go public

One of the darkest events in the martial-law era of Poland in the early 1980s will soon be available to the public.

Andrew Topf | August 23, 2015 | 2:36 pm

Canadian oil sands producer ready to begin digging pits in the US

Beginning this fall, the company will start digging the first in a series of pits, each the size of a football stadium, in Utah, about 265km (165 miles) from Salt Lake City.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 21, 2015 | 11:15 am

New variety of hard-to-find mineral discovered in England

The last time a vein of Blue John Stone, a legendary semi-precious mineral, was discovered was in the in the XIX century.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 21, 2015 | 6:30 am

INFOGRAPHIC – On the precipice: Will global markets follow commodities off the cliff?

Today may be the end of this trend of divergence. US equities are at a precipice: fueled by low rates and quantitative easing for years, they have finally started to tumble from record highs.

Visual Capitalist | August 21, 2015 | 6:15 am

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