March 15, 2011 Teck settles strike at Elkview mine The six-week strike at Teck's Elkview coal mine is coming to an end, Canadian Press reported Tuesday morning. The Vancouver company and Local 9346 of the United Steelworkers of America…
March 15, 2011 The battle for bitumen: High-stakes politicking in Washington over Canadian oil sands The Tyee online news-site, best known for edgy coverage of British Columbia politics, is publishing a series of reports on the hard-ball politicking going on in the corridors of power…
March 15, 2011 Uranium stocks take a thrashing While the jury remains out on exactly what went wrong at certain tsunami-and earthquake-impacted nuclear power reactors in Japan, investors took decisive action on Monday, selling down listed uranium stocks…
March 14, 2011 Quake halts production at Japanese steelmakers Reuters is reporting that FE Steel, the world's No 5 steelmaker, on Monday halted production at a plant near Tokyo and global fourth-ranked Nippon Steel suspended operations at two small…
March 14, 2011 Teck coal sales expected to drop in Q1 Teck Resources is blaming cold winter weather and train derailments for lower coal sales in the first quarter of 2011. The B.C.-based company expects Q1 coal sales to be between…
March 14, 2011 Fukushima crisis creates big fallout in Australian uranium stocks Australian uranium counters took a substantial hit on Monday in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in […]
March 13, 2011 Coal shipping terminals in British Columbia could face competition down south Coal from Montana and Wyoming is often shipped through ports in British Columbia, such as Westshore Terminal near Vancouver, B.C., or to […]
March 13, 2011 Worries about Japan’s nuclear reactor are overblown Media coverage of the Japanese nuclear power plant that suffered damage after Friday’s earthquake is overblown, according to Dr. Josef Oehmen, a research […]
March 11, 2011 Western Lithium completes purchase of royalties and mineral property titles from Western Uranium Western Lithium USA Corporation (WLC) and Western Uranium Corporation (WUC) said Friday that they have completed the previously announced transaction for the […]
March 11, 2011 Aftershocks The aftershocks of the Japanese earthquake are still being felt around the world. People everywhere are reeling from the triple whammy of a massive earthquake, a terrifying tsunami and now…
Column: India’s sponge iron boom rides to rescue South African coal Finding bullish exporters of thermal coal has been tricky of late. February 10, 2026 | 10:59 am