Chart of the week: Oil bankruptcy mayhem

Canadian Enbridge and Enterprise Products Partners LP have nearly completed work on the Seaway pipeline to increase its capacity from 150,000 to 400,000 barrels per day.

Following a series of recent protests and other problems affecting mining companies with operations in Colombia, coal workers for the local unit of Glencore International went on strike late Thursday, causing the immediate halt of the company's operations in the country.

Japanese investors are becoming increasingly anxious over industrial relations in the Australian mining sector, in the wake of a long-standing dispute involving Mitsubishi and BHP Queensland coal operations which has now entered its 19th month.

Look no further than rail traffic totals to see that the US is ditching coal and embracing natural gas.

Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) is looking to reduce costs at its Australia’s Clermont Coal Mine, in central Queensland's Bowen Basin, driven by falling coal prices.

Credit Suisse announced Wednesday it recruited David Hammond, the well-known mining banker from Morgan Stanley, to head up the mining and metals efforts of the Swiss bank worldwide.

The Vancouver-based gold junior's stock was worth a mere 7.5c when the first drill results from its Las Tres Palmas trend in the Dominican Republic was first released. By June 1 it had increased ten-fold. On Wednesday it gained another 22% after new drill results hinted just how rich the Romero discovery may eventually turn out to be.

Calling gold the ultimate money, Jay Taylor, editor of Jay Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks, watches the real price of gold with a gimlet eye. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Taylor shares promising names in each of the four categories in his model portfolio.

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