If the timeline holds, Northern Graphite’s (TSXV:NGC) Bissett Creek Project will be one of the first graphite mines to open outside China since the 1990s.

One year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, analysts are hiking ratings and price targets on uranium companies that have posted some impressive gains of late.

Crowded as Quebec’s Abitibi region is with big players, it’s mostly the juniors who find the gold. Two of them think they’ve found something very big indeed in their Standard Gold-Duverny Project, a joint venture of Bowmore Exploration (TSXV:BOW) and Threegold Resources (TSXV:THG). It’s early days, but Phase I drilling results announced last week have the partners very excited.

A clash over infrastructure assets is shaping up in northern Quebec, pitting the interests of two corporate titans against a group of junior miners.

Coal mining in Appalachia has survived deadly explosions, the Great Depression and the country’s largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The latest threat is booming shale-gas production.

Canada’s mining sector is entering a period of “significant and sustained growth,” according to a recent report from the Mining Association of Canada (MAC), which will translate into the need to hire more than 100,000 additional workers in the next decade.

One of the most promising junior potash stories has achieved a major milestone.

Last week we highlighted the increasing influence China is having in the global oil market given its rapid growth in demand. China has been actively searching out secure sources of crude oil around the world that at times seems to be in complete disregard to the current stand-alone economics of such acquisitions.

John Broadhurst sizes up the sludge flowing out of a pipe into one of Suncor Energy Inc.’s tailings ponds and nods in approval.

The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20% increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations.

The Financial Post reports a shortage of Canadian synthetic crude, the result of outages at oil sands operations, has resulted in premium prices for Canadian varieties in May of as much as US$15 a barrel over the U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, energy investment dealer Peters & Co. said in a note to clients. The energy investment dealer said the hefty premium, primarily for Edmonton Par, is a significant departure from the discounts of about US$12 a barrel experienced in February. Prices were depressed at the time because of pipeline bottlenecks in the U.S.

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Canada will extend its mineral exploration tax credit for flow-through share investors for another year, but plans to remove […]