Coal’s good year and uranium’s worst year

Last year coal was the the only fossil fuel to record above average worldwide growth at 5.4%, while nuclear power consumption was off 4.3%, the largest decline on record, said BP in its look at energy use in 2011.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 13, 2012 | 7:21 pm

San Gold’s clearcut raises ire of environmentalists

To get a replacement tailing pond started for its mine, San Gold (TSE:SGR) clearcut a forest near the Wanipigow River, but the Manitoba branch of the Wilderness Committee accuses the company of taking down the trees before getting proper permission.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 13, 2012 | 5:59 pm

A solution for tracking badgers may also help find miners

A novel solution for tracking badgers underground eventually led to a technology that beats many of the conventional tracking tools currently on the market.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 13, 2012 | 5:19 am

Why Indians end up buying gold

India should be doing better, according to Raghuram Rajan, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago, but bad government policy keeps stepping on the country's growth and sends its citizens back to gold.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 8:42 pm

Prairie Creek Mine gets OK from aboriginal affairs

CBC reports that Canadian Zinc (TSE:CZN) has passed another milestone in getting its zinc-silver-lead-copper Prairie Creek Mine up and running with an OK from John Duncan, the minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 7:38 pm

That carton of milk will cost you $15.19: grocery shopping in Nunavut

A humourous look at grocery shopping in Canada's far north

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 6:44 pm

What it’s like to be female and working near Fort McMurray

Journalist Lindsay Bird writes about working in the camps near Fort McMurray, and comes away unimpressed

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 6:03 pm

From mine to finished magnets: Molycorp closes US$1.3 billion acquisition of Neo Materials

US-based rare earth miners, Molycorp (NYSE:MCP), gets a foothold in Asia after completing its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Canadian-based Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX:NEM).

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 5:30 am

Barrick could be buying silver on the futures market due to contractual obligations: Silver Doctors

The Silver Doctors worry that Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama gold and silver mine might still not get built due to problems with glaciers in the region.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 12, 2012 | 4:47 am

Another company attempts to block First Uranium’s asset sale

First Uranium's (TSE:FIU) plan to sell some of its South African assets was thrown into further disarray after Kumvest (Pty) Ltd. offered to buy First Uranium in order to block the sale.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 10, 2012 | 5:41 pm

Guest worker upset begets job board so Australians see positions first

The Australian government launched a Resources Sector Jobs Board so employers can prove they made the job widely available to citizens before they apply for guest workers.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 10, 2012 | 4:10 pm

Churchill Mining’s US$2 billion lawsuit against Indonesia gets lift from NY Times

British coal miner, Churchill Mining (LON:CHL), and its case against the Indonesia government got a leg up when its two-year legal battle was profiled in the New York Times.

Michael Allan McCrae | June 9, 2012 | 8:00 pm

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