May 3, 2011 EIA forecasts coal to remain king of American electric power generation The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts coal to remain the dominant fuel for power generation until 2035 despite projected strong increases in natural gas and renewable fuel use over the…
May 3, 2011 Sandvik and Shandong Energy JV for underground coal equipment Sandvik Mining and Construction and Shandong Energy Machinery in Xintai, Shandong Province, China, have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 owned joint venture for the production and sales of…
May 2, 2011 Three Cs Going Crazy in Commodities With silver spiraling out of control, it's worth checking in on some of the other commodities. Indeed the agricultural or soft commodities have, as a group, been surging in recent…
May 2, 2011 Arch Coal Merger Consolidates Coking Space Things were already looking tight in the coking coal world before Arch Coal (ACI) decided to pay $3.4 billion for International Coal Group (ICO). The deal pays International Coal shareholders…
May 2, 2011 The bogey man is dead! Gold drops and recovers. Silver struggles. The implications of Osama Bin Laden’s death are filtering through to the markets and, after an initial dive, gold seems to be […]
May 2, 2011 Arch Coal to buy International Coal Group for $3.4bn Arch Coal (ACI.N) will buy smaller peer International Coal Group Inc (ICO.N) for $3.4 billion to create the second-largest U.S. producer of steel-making coal, the companies said on Monday. The…
May 2, 2011 Gold and silver’s daily review May Day in Europe is a holiday as was Friday, so the current market is thin and volatile not truly reflecting the gold and silver markets. The moves in the…
May 2, 2011 Coal use in china shines light on growth International coal prices hit $124 per ton this week, the highest levels in five months, as strong demand from reconstruction projects in Japan and reduced supply from flood-ravaged Australia has…
May 2, 2011 The S&P 500 may hold clues to the peak in gold & silver The single biggest news event last week besides the Royal Wedding (who actually cares) was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's televised press conference. The Federal Reserve is attempting to appear…
May 2, 2011 Extract confident Husab uranium project will be unaffected by policy changes Extract Resources said on Monday it was confident that the Namibian government's proposed policy changes on strategic minerals will not affect its Husab uranium project license. The Namibian government is…
Indonesia identifies eight blocks with large rare earth reserve potential The blocks will be mined by the new state-owned miner Perminas. February 10, 2026 | 09:51 am
