Saudis ramping up oil output to gain leverage in OPEC talks

Bolivia has passed this month the world's first ruling that grants all nature equal rights to humans. The “Law of Mother Earth,” agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the South American nation's mineral deposits as "blessings" and is supposed to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.

A Chinese-joint venture in Australia has made a USD$73.4 million takeover bid for Queensland's Endocoal (ASX:EOC).

Matt Stroller at Naked Capitalist asks whether the United States is gradually transforming into a resource extraction economy with a more oligarchic […]

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.

Producing oil and gas without water is impossible

Just a one percentage point decline in oil production generates an immediate oil price spike of over 60 percent

Landfall expected Sunday night

Aussie miner Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC) has announced the indefinite suspension of operations at its Sunnyside mine near Gunnedah in New South Wales. […]

A prominent Indonesian businessman has warned foreign miners of the perils of investing in his own country over the next two years due to new laws which curb overseas ownership.