April 25, 2019 Around the world, buyers’ remorse sets in for costly clean power Two decades ago, governments and utilities around the world began offering above-market rates and contracts to fuel the rise of clean energy, but now these pacts are under attack.
April 25, 2019 Canadian miners start 2019 off on the right foot amid mega-deals Ernst & Young’s Canadian Mining Eye index — which tracks the performance of 100 Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange mid-tier and junior mining companies — rose 5% fin…
April 25, 2019 China’s Australian coking coal imports double in March from Feb Arrivals of Australian coking coal were at 2.23 million tonnes last month, up 92% from 1.16 million tonnes in February.
April 25, 2019 Sirius Minerals secures European supply deal for its $5B fertilizer mine The company has found in BayWa, a Germany agribusiness, a partner that will distribute the fertilizer Sirius plans to produce from its Woodsmith mine in Europe.
April 24, 2019 China said to maintain Australia coal go-slow until after polls China will maintain a slowdown in coal imports from Australia until Beijing has assessed government policy in Canberra after federal elections in May.
April 24, 2019 ‘Land no one else wants’ gets solar as coal-and-nukes era fades Solar and wind farms are being developed or built in places not normally associated with clean energy, and in some regions long resistant to it.
April 24, 2019 Top miners back autonomous systems guidelines The document divides operations into six levels, from zero (entirely manual) to five (fully autonomous), and assists in the preparation of a business case for autonomous mining, depending on level…
April 24, 2019 ALX executes agreement to earn 51% interest in the Close Lake uranium project ALX and Orano are on the verge of initiating a multi-year exploration program with the goal of locating a new, high-grade uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin.
April 23, 2019 China’s Tsingshan expands plans for Zimbabwe steel plant Tsingshan signed a $1 billion outline agreement to build a 2 million tonne-per-annum steel plant in Zimbabwe in June last year.
April 23, 2019 Can Saudi Arabia still sway the oil market? Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter and OPEC's largest producer, has influenced the oil market and oil flows since the middle of the 20th century.
Chinese copper smelter, Antofagasta agree to record low fees Tough negotiations reflected a market facing abundant refining capacity but tight global ore supplies. December 22, 2025 | 12:20 pm