The Bucko Lake Mine in Manitoba is scaling back operations due to a fall in nickel prices.

What happened to the clean coal movement? Benjamin Gotlieb, blogging for the web news portal of the Los Angeles-based Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication, addresses the question of whether carbon dioxide can safely be stored in the earth's crust.

A once-abandoned copper mine in New South Wales, Australia is being revitalized through a partnership with a Chinese company.

The Calgary Herald is reporting that a Canadian family running an offshore organization under investigation by police has taken over a gold mining company in Ecuador.

Canada's energy and pipeline regulator has approved an application by Enbridge to build a $180 million pipeline to move oil out of the pipeline-constrained Bakken oil play.

A major Canadian bank is predicting better months ahead for copper and oil.

Conventional copper mining involves removing ore from the ground, then crushing and treating it to remove the minerals trapped in the rock.

An underground coal mine proposed for near Margaret River in Western Australia has been rejected by the state's environment minister.

A feasibility study released Wednesday for the Ajax copper-gold project estimates the capital costs at $795 million.

Imperial Oil is spending close to $9 billion to expand its 71%-owned Kearl Oil Sands Project.

A California company says it has discovered a new way to make liquid fuel from coal without consuming water or producing carbon dioxide.

Anglo American (LON:AAL) has increased the capital expenditure budget for its largest project in development, the Minas-Rio iron ore mine in Brazil, by 15%, the London-listed major miner announced on Tuesday. That takes the capex for the project up to US$5.78 billion.