Australia’s $5 billion bet on clean coal

March 2012 broke all the hot weather records in the USA. It was the warmest month in the eastern two-thirds of the USA since records, going back to 1895, were kept.

The $2.6 billion Qatari investment could provide Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg the necessary backing he needs to push through the deal which many Xstrata shareholders say sell them short.

It hasn't been long since Caterpillar Inc looked like the typical resident of the Rust Belt. Having misjudged how deep the U.S. economy would decline, the world's largest maker of construction machinery reduced its workforce by 33,000 people worldwide in 2009, closed plants and posted lower profits.

This video by mining equipment manufacturer Job Global, more educational than promotional, gives an excellent overview of longwall, versus room and pillar underground coal mining.

Zimbabwe's Black Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, announced today it has taken majority ownership of foreign-owned mining firms, which had not already given a controlling stake to black Zimbabweans.

A recent study published by Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute calls for a slowdown in mining investment.

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR) announced today that it plans to permanently close the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine near Whitesville, W.Va.

The commodity price cycle peaked in the third quarter of last year.

Chalk up another fracture in the Big Labor-environmentalist alliance: United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts unloaded on the Environmental Protection Agency in a radio interview Tuesday.