April 30, 2012 North America to lead energy investments in 2012: analysts 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…
April 30, 2012 Energy Transfer paying US$5.3 billion for Sunocor Energy Transfer (NYSE: ETP), a natural gas transportation company based in Texas, and Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) agreed on a US$5.3 billion merger in a cash and stock transaction valued…
April 30, 2012 Mongolia’s mine law change unlikely to be retroactive – minister Vice finance minister, Chuluun Ganhuyag, says the proposed new law will only apply to investment in certain deposits, but the list will go beyond the country's current list of strategic…
April 30, 2012 Veteran broker accuses BHP Billiton of destroying own wealth with bad decisions From aborted takeover attempts for Rio Tinto and Potash Corp and what is seen as a disastrous successful one for Petrohawk, BHP Billiton is accused of making many bad decisions…
April 29, 2012 A significant paradigm shift in public activism 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…
April 29, 2012 For miners, coal is no longer hot It's been a bleak spring for U.S. coal miners—and the question for Arch Coal Inc. ACI -1.66% and Alpha Natural Resources Inc. ANR -3.88% is whether they can even meet…
April 29, 2012 BC overpaid by $21 million to settle uranium mine claim: NDP 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.
April 29, 2012 Surfeit of sulphur at Alberta oilsands 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.
April 29, 2012 CoAL jumps through hoops to get Vele running Fourteen months after being halted by the South African departments of water and environment, Coal of Africa's Vele mine has begun shipping its first coal.
April 29, 2012 New high-grade uranium mine granted 10-year lease Alliance Resources and Quasar Resources, joint venture partners in a South Australia uranium mine, have been granted a 10-year mining lease on the property located 550 kms north of Adelaide.
Chinalco, Rio Tinto buy control of Brazilian aluminum firm CBA for $904 million Together, the companies will acquire a 68.6% stake or 446.6 million shares of the Brazilian aluminum producer. January 29, 2026 | 04:34 pm