Impoverished no more: Indian bean farmers grow fracking’s special ingredient

A hard bean, the guar, grown in India's most arid and hard scrabble region is a key ingredient in making hydraulic fracturing better.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 19, 2012 | 7:30 pm

Coal is down and petroleum products are way, way up: US rail traffic totals

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

Michael Allan McCrae | July 19, 2012 | 6:51 pm

No option: China has to deleverage

Dee Woo writes in the Business Insider that the Chinese government no longer has any policy options left, and it must start deleveraging.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 16, 2012 | 12:04 am

Finding some silver in a roll of dimes

Taking a hard look at your next roll of dimes could leave you with a nice tip.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 15, 2012 | 6:50 pm

BHP Billiton exits Guinea

Sunday Times reports (paywall) that BHP Billiton, which is shedding its non-core operations, is looking for a buyer for its Mount Nimba iron ore project in Guinea.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 15, 2012 | 5:00 pm

Gordon Brown’s gold gambit

The UK government's great gold firesale in 1999 was an attempt to prevent a banking crisis.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 15, 2012 | 1:45 am

Meet Malcom McLean: inventor of the global economy

In a Ted Talk, Sunni Brown profiles Malcom McLean, a bored truck driver waiting at shipping docks in New Jersey whose simple idea to speed up shipping transformed the modern global economy and changed the lives of every living person afterwards.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 15, 2012 | 1:21 am

What a Roman centurion’s pay says about gold

Gold is really lousy at compounding.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 14, 2012 | 8:06 pm

Company to pay $7 million for toxic coal spill

The Ohio Valley Coal Company plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Columbus to having spilled coal wastewater into a stream in Ohio.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 14, 2012 | 5:06 pm

China wants to buy iron ore from a wider pool of sellers

China plans to diversify iron ore imports and increase the ratio from independent miners to 50%, according to comments made Wang Xiaoqi, vice-chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 14, 2012 | 4:41 pm

Egyptian billionaire pays $492 million for La Mancha Resources

Naguib Sawiris,an Egyptian mobile phone entrepreneur, is paying $492 million for gold miner La Mancha Resources (TSE:LMA).

Michael Allan McCrae | July 13, 2012 | 8:30 pm

Nationalization worries and Oppenheimers’ exit: MINING.com’s top stories last week

It is mid-July, the heart of the summer, but there was news to be had. Here are our readers favourite stories last […]

Michael Allan McCrae | July 13, 2012 | 7:16 pm

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