The bid by a green billionaire to buy Australia's most polluting company may have stumbled at the first hurdle, but it's likely the race is far from over, writes Clyde Russell.

Copper held in warehouses tracked by the Shanghai Futures Exchange surged 28% last week and have more than quadrupled this year.

China’s top planning agency approved three different billion-dollar coal mine projects on Monday.

While coal reserves at power plants have risen from a low in September, they are still only about a third of an April 2020 high.

Origin Energy could shutter the Eraring facility, in a coal-mining region north of Sydney, as soon as August 2025.

Underlying earnings for the half-year ended Dec. 31 came in at $1 billion, beating a consensus estimate of $987.5 million.

Woodmac flags growing commodity supply chain inefficiencies as Russia-Ukraine geopolitical tensions simmer.

Scientists estimated the Hail Creek mine spewed between 123,000 and 263,000 metric tons of methane last year.