Agarwal plans to keep his Anglo American stake for a long time

Shares four junior names he thinks could profit, and one truly contrarian name for those expecting the worst.

"There is quite a spread at the moment."

Tax promises to cripple new energy sector investment.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that sanctions to date had only been imposed on Russian individuals and companies but Australia could consider "other options".

The Dewey-Burdock mine is expected to recover 1 million pounds of uranium annually for eight years.

Uranium mining for America's Cold War nuclear arms buildup has proved a lasting scourge on the nation's largest American Indian reservation, and one that the same government that demanded the ore has been slow to address.

The merger is the largest in the energy sector in the last 15 years.

Not even higher seasonal demand expected as the Northern Hemisphere heads into winter will save coal from its free falling, analysts say.

Second-quarter coal production at Central Appalachia's 25 top-producing mines totaled 11.63 million tons, up about 2.9% from the 11.30 million tons produced in the same quarter a year-ago.