September 29, 2011

Commodities, world stocks fall on euro crisis fears

Asian shares and commodities fell on Thursday on growing worries that Europe's intractable debt problems will plunge the world into a second global financial crisis.

September 28, 2011

US third quarter IPOs hit by market turbulence

Consulting firm PwC in the US announced on Wednesday after a strong first half of 2011, initial public offering (IPO) proceeds in the third quarter of 2011 decreased from $12.3…

September 28, 2011

Nobel peace prize winners won’t give Keystone a chance

TransCanada’s bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline is facing growing high-profile opposition, drawing fire from the Dalai Lama (pictured), Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel Peace Prize laureates…

September 28, 2011

Three strikes: Molycorp strikes out in Washington

As exciting as the critical metals sector is becoming, Gold Stock Trades' Jeb Handwerger warns that the public is being bombarded with misleading information, even at the highest levels of…

September 28, 2011

Paladin Energy Ltd successfully completes A$68.2m/C$69.2M institutional placement of shares

Paladin Energy Ltd (TSX:PDN)(ASX:PDN) ("Paladin" or the "Company") has completed the bookbuild for a private placement to institutional and accredited investors of 56.9M ordinary shares (representing 7.3% of Paladin's existing…

September 28, 2011

We’ll need 170,000 workers, says BHP

CLANCY YEATES BHP BILLITON has predicted Australia's resources industry will need an extra 170,000 workers in the next five years, underlining the job bonanza set to hit mining states. Forecasts…

September 28, 2011

High grade uranium boulders yield anomalous gold values from ESO/Fission JV at Patterson Lake uranium property

VANCOUVER, Sept. 28, 2011 /CNW/ - ESO Uranium Corp. (TSXV: ESO), (the "Company" or "ESO") and its 50% Joint Venture (JV) partner Fission Energy (TSX-V: FIS), announce further results from…

September 28, 2011

Yorkshire mine death man named

_ A miner who died when a roof collapsed in a pit was named by the mine owner today. Gerry Gibson, 49, died at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, yesterday when…

September 28, 2011

CO2 Solution to present its technology for reducing carbon emissions from the Alberta oil sands

focus on the application of CO2 Solution's enzymatic carbon capture technology to efficiently manage carbon emissions from oil sands production operations in Alberta.  Unconventional hydrocarbon production from the oil sands…

September 28, 2011

Commodities down, but far from out!

Over the last decade commodity prices have been surging at a breathtaking rate, except perhaps for the end of 2008 and into early 2009, when we saw a significant correction.