Global miner Rio Tinto (RIO-N70.71----%) is on track to hit its 2011 iron ore production target after posting on Thursday a 12-per-cent rise in second-quarter output on the year, but its Australian coal operations were still recovering from floods.

A recent Globe and Mail column on the uranium cartel of the 1970s claims that Canada secretly organized a group of nations and companies to raise the price of uranium, and when its efforts became public, “one of Canada’s most authoritarian prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau,” made it a crime to discuss the matter in public.

to benefit from the escalation in world oil prices given their two-thirds oil production weighting, while exposure to oil sands offers security of supply and a long resource life, analyst Greg Pardy said in a research note. The second-quarter earnings

The remaining opportunities are few, far between, and expensive. Meeting our GHG targets is not just an oil sands problem, but regulations will be required in the oil and gas sector and need to be announced soon.