Energy Top Stories

South Africa’s Transnet hopes to re-open one closed coal export line on Saturday

South Africa's Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) exported a record 76.47 million tonnes of coal in 2017, and aims to export 77 million tonnes this year.

Reuters | December 21, 2018 | 9:49 am

Worst Czech coal mine blast in decades kills 12 Poles, one Czech

The accident is the worst mining disaster in the Czech…

Reuters | December 21, 2018 | 3:00 am

UEX releases maiden resource for Christie Lake JV

The inferred resource is 588,000 tonnes grading 1.57% uranium oxide…

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 19, 2018 | 2:31 pm

Scotgold ready to break rock at Scotland’s first commercial gold mine

Cononish underground gold-silver mine is expected to produce 23,500 ounces…

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 19, 2018 | 8:54 am

Incidents of black lung vastly under-reported in US Appalachia — NPR

The investigation tracked the plights of former coal miners suffering…

Amanda Stutt | December 18, 2018 | 3:04 pm

CRA targeting mining-sector tax havens

It’s an issue that the Canadians for Tax Fairness and the Liberal Party of Canada appear to be hoping to make a federal election issue.

Business in Vancouver | August 5, 2015 | 9:13 am

Work continues

There are good companies doing promising work. Yes, the news flow is slower than in better markets, but that doesn’t mean it’s crickets out there.

Gwen Preston - Resource Maven | August 5, 2015 | 8:40 am

U.S. coal co’s cringe as Obama tightens climate change rules

U.S. President Obama has unveiled new rules designed to impose more costs on the battered and bruised United States coal industry.

Andrew Topf | August 3, 2015 | 1:13 pm

Alpha Natural Resources files for bankruptcy protection

The slump in the coal market has claimed another victim.

Andrew Topf | August 3, 2015 | 10:03 am

The hidden cost of coal mining

The small Turkish town of Soma, near the Aegean Sea, was once better known for its spartan houses and quaint surrounding farmland. But ever since 301 miners died last year in a nearby coal mine explosion and fire that changed.

Ozaukee Press | July 31, 2015 | 6:13 am

Former Exxon President on mission to clean up oil sands

Canada has given oil sands a dirty reputation, but a breakthrough, commercially viable technology has caught the eye of a former Exxon Mobil president who is putting it to use to clean up Utah's billions of barrels of oil sands.

Oilprice.com | July 31, 2015 | 4:39 am

INFOGRAPHIC: The origin of the Greek crisis

Today's giant infographic does an excellent job summing up the crisis from beginning to end - it's the only infographic you need to understand it all.

Visual Capitalist | July 30, 2015 | 8:17 am