May 29, 2019 Namibia says China can buy Rio’s uranium stake if it respects laws Rio Tinto, which is seeking to divest less profitable assets, said last November that it was selling its 69% stake in the world's longest-running open pit uranium mine to China…
May 29, 2019 CanAlaska to start drilling at West McArthur uranium project The program is intended to locate high-grade uranium hosted in faults along the C10 horizon, the major regional fault structure.
May 28, 2019 China proposes coal price cuts to ease burden on power producers The latest move signals coal power generators are under pressure from high raw material costs and the government’s plan to cut electricity charges.
May 28, 2019 Uncertain future for Hume Coal’s Australia mine If approved, Hume's mine is expected to produce 50-million tonnes of run-of-mine coal over 23 years.
May 25, 2019 Natural gas now beats coal, even in West Virginia: Justin Fox For the first time ever, West Virginia last year produced more natural gas, as measured by energy content, than coal.
May 24, 2019 Coking coal price to remain elevated in 2019— report On the supply side, Fitch expects production misses from Australia to keep the market tight in the coming quarters as large diversified miners lose their appetite for mining coal.
May 23, 2019 World’s most contested coal mine doesn’t add up — opinion After the opposition Labor party suffered heavy losses in coal-mining regions in Saturday’s Australian federal elections, the Carmichael project looks to be getting closer than ever to approval.
May 23, 2019 Adani’s coal hopes look increasingly isolated as BHP joins naysayers — opinion BHP Group CFO Peter Beavan told a strategy briefing on Wednesday that the world's biggest mining company has "no appetite" to grow its thermal coal assets.
May 22, 2019 Merkel cabinet approves $45B in aid for coal regions The aid package launches a drive to transform chimney-stack economies into high-tech centers and will help Germany achieve its climate goals for 2030 and put it on the right path…
May 21, 2019 The future of energy won’t be decided by voters — opinion Investors in energy seem now to be sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see whether the cost deflation in renewables will overcome issues around grid integration, or whether some unforeseen policy…
Op-Ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
