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North America will head global energy investments this year, driven by boom in unconventional production, with a $392 billion on upstream capital and operating expenditures in the region, say global consultants from IHS.

China's push to diversify its supplies away from the big three iron ore miners is propelling development that will transform Canada's Nunavut/Labrador Trough into a world-class iron ore region.

There has been a significant paradigm shift in public activism in Canada and a growing hostility toward mining and dogmatic opposition by environmentalists and social action groups toward virtually all mining and energy projects.

The Opposition New Democratic Party is alleging the Liberal government of BC overpaid Boss Energy to abandon plans for a uranium mine near the Interior city of Kelowna.

Business Insider's Robert Johnson took some photos of the mountains of sulphur piling up in northern Alberta- part of the website's series on the Alberta oilsands.

ArcelorMittal today announces that a scoping study has identified the potential to utilize ArcelorMittal Mines Canada’s existing infrastructure system and to increase annual production of iron-ore concentrate to 30 million tonnes per annum.

Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives by mining companies operating in emerging markets in South America, Africa and Asia have become a crucial part of doing business as “above-ground risks are quickly gaining equal footing to traditional geological and engineering considerations for mining projects.”

The price oil sands producers receive for their crude improved to $30.75 a barrel below the international benchmark on Friday, a 42% gain from multi-year lows hit six weeks ago on the back of a sharply narrower gap between Canadian and US crude.

Statistics Canada revealed today that the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan led the country in economic growth in 2011, buoyed by the extraction and exploration of their natural resources.