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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.