Germans rally against the country’s reliance on coal

The figure, estimated by doctors, is based on the health costs and lost productivity from coal-related respiratory and cardiac issues.

The Arshanovsky open cut mine is expected to yield 10 million tonnes of coal a year once at full capacity.

The figure represents 9% of the company's Canadian workforce, and it is due to "soft market conditions."

Anglo’s assets up for grabs include three mines and a smelter valued at $1 billion.

After methane gas explosion triggered a collapse in a coal mine located about 145 km. off the provincial capital of Quetta.

Once fully operational, the Husab mine will have the potential to produce 15 million pounds of uranium oxide.

Oil companies in Canada, the world’s fifth-largest crude producer, are not showing any signs of cutting down output, despite fuel prices more than halving in the past six months.

Kaiser believes the easiest way to bolster the sector, which exists to provide capital to find and develop new mines, is to abolish Accredited Investor Exemption rules that currently restrict non-rich people from giving money directly to the treasuries of these companies.

It may be difficult to look beyond the current pricing environment for oil, but the depletion of low-cost reserves and the increasing inability to find major new discoveries ensures a future of expensive oil.