August 12, 2011 GMR Infrastructure buys indonesian company, secures coal supplies for its subsidiary GMR Energy, a part of the GMR infrastructure, will acquire 30% stake in the Indonesian firm PT Golden Energy for $550 million in cash. With this transaction the company's coal…
August 12, 2011 Lanco withdraws threat to cancel coal supply to Australia’s Bluewaters "There was just a letter, that we may have to suspend coal because of commercial reasons. Since then, the letter has also been withdrawn," Chief Financial Officer J Suresh Kumar…
August 12, 2011 Peabody says it has FIRB approval for Macarthur Coal Peabody Energy says it's obtained approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) of its $15.50 per share bid for Macarthur Coal Ltd. Macarthur has advised shareholders to take no…
August 12, 2011 Canadian pundit Ezra Levant talks ‘ethical’ oil In his book, “Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands,” popular Canadian Conservative pundit and media personality Ezra Levant discusses how Canada’s vast reserves in bitumen oil sands is…
August 12, 2011 Australia $11bn mining tax hits another hurdle The Greens leader, Bob Brown, wrote to the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, this week demanding the information be made public before the tax is debated later in the year.
August 11, 2011 Losing our cool in the summer Predictability is a long-sought but elusive state in the modern economy. It seems particularly elusive at the moment. Unusual uncertainty and volatility are delaying the global economy’s healing process. Listen…
August 11, 2011 Odds against oil sands projects rapidly stacking up Recent developments are rapidly stacking the odds against Alberta oil sands: the oil price has fallen 20% in one month, the gap between US crude and world prices hit a…
August 11, 2011 Kirrin airborne survey shows 13 high priority targets at Key Lake uranium project The eastern margin of the Athabasca Basin is home to the most productive and highest grade uranium mines in the world with roughly 25% of the world’s uranium production coming…
August 11, 2011 Reserves grow at Husab Estimated uranium reserves at the Husab uranium project in Namibia have increased by 37%, ensuring an operating life of over 20 years for Extract Resources Ltd's planned mine, the company…
August 11, 2011 Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile…
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