Energy Top Stories

LME to launch monthly ‘implied pricing’ for base metals

Starting on July 30, the LME will start providing a set of synthetic monthly prices for the six main base metals — copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and tin.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 17, 2018 | 5:25 am

Four miners killed in Georgia in coal mine accident, officials say

The government will close the mine until an investigation is…

Reuters | July 16, 2018 | 10:22 am

Reduced head count, capex spending biggest contributor to mine efficiency mid-decade: McKinsey

To stay productive, McKinsey warns that miners must maintain fiscal…

Michael Allan McCrae | July 13, 2018 | 9:02 am

Five top mining execs. convicted over Turkey’s worst mine disaster

The sentences range from 15 to 22 years in jail…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 11, 2018 | 8:24 am

Suncor says Syncrude oilsands project to return to full production in September

Suncor expects pipeline shipments from its Syncrude oil sands project…

Reuters | July 10, 2018 | 2:00 am

Miners begin to find a ‘level of stability’

For the companies that are doing well, it is a good time to grow within their markets.

Michael Allan McCrae | February 4, 2015 | 9:59 pm

Russia stashes 55 tonnes of gold in Switzerland

Customs data shows the world's second largest gold miner Russia exported 58 tonnes to be refined in Switzerland last year, but got less than 3 tonnes back.

Frik Els | February 4, 2015 | 7:40 pm

Mongolian verdict sends chill through mining community

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

Frik Els | February 4, 2015 | 4:12 pm

State of global economy among the Canadian mining industry’s top issues

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

Mining Association of Canada | February 4, 2015 | 4:06 pm

Lots of new fees for hardrock miners in BLM budget

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

Michael Allan McCrae | February 3, 2015 | 9:04 pm

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

Frik Els | February 3, 2015 | 8:04 pm

Gold bears too complacent about Grexit

Gold price pullback since vote hides real possibility of Greek debt default, euro exit and displays overconfidence in ECB's ability to limit contagion says report.

Frik Els | February 2, 2015 | 11:42 pm