February 5, 2012 Top shareholders gunning for Xstrata’s Big Mick, could block deal without premium The Telegraph reports Chairman John Bond and CEO Mick Davis risk being voted off the board of Xstrata after being accused of negotiating "a cosy stitch-up" with Glencore and that…
February 4, 2012 Canadian jobs: It’s oil sands all the time Statistics Canada reported Friday that of the jobs created in January 65% were in Alberta.
February 4, 2012 Sunshine Oilsands postpones $700m Hong Kong IPO, now wants ‘resource savvy’ Canadian investors Sunshine Oilsands, a Calgary-based oil explorer backed by Chinese state-owned enterprises, has delayed the launch of a planned up to $700 million initial public offering in Hong Kong which would…
February 4, 2012 Newmont Mining finds two suitors for coal tenements Gold miner Newmont Mining is putting a final polish to the sale of its Queensland coal assets, with two overseas suitors vying for a resource estimated at more than 1.2…
February 4, 2012 China secures Kalahari, paves way for Extract bid China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC) declared its offer for Kalahari Minerals unconditional on Friday, paving the way for it to launch a takeover bid for Extract Resources, owner of…
February 4, 2012 Miners face anger over water discharges Queensland miners and the DERM are facing community ire over water discharges.
February 3, 2012 Imperial Oil green-lights $2 billion Cold Lake expansion Imperial Oil is spending $2 billion to expand its Cold Lake insitu oilsands operation in northeastern Alberta.
February 3, 2012 Oilsands Quest secures CDN$3.75 million financing; agrees to sell non-core Eagles Nest asset for CDN$4.4 million Oilsands Quest Inc. (NYSE Amex: BQI) ("Oilsands Quest," or "the Company") has secured a commitment for debtor-in-possession ("DIP") financing of CDN$3.75 million (the "DIP Facility"), for the purposes of funding…
February 3, 2012 Tasmania’s biggest coal mine set to go ahead The prospect of a carbon tax will have no effect on plans to operate Tasmania's biggest coal mine in the North West.
Uranium market gathers momentum in 2026: Sprott Sprott noted the gains in January reflect "an important shift in investor attention" from downstream nuclear themes back to the upstream supply chain. February 10, 2026 | 09:16 am
