July 27, 2018 South African diamond fetches half a million dollars The gem was sold on tender for $11,267 per carat.
July 27, 2018 Will BHP’s CEO follow Top Miner’s shale unit out of the door? BHP Billiton Ltd.’s $10.8 billion of deals to exit its troubled U.S. shale unit will allow Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mackenzie to shower investors with returns. It may also be…
July 26, 2018 BP pays $10.5 bln for BHP shale assets to beef up U.S. business A unit of British oil major BP PLC will acquire BHP's unit which holds the Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian assets for $10.5 billion.
July 26, 2018 Cameco lays off 700 staff The news bumped Cameco's stock (CCO.TO) five per cent on Thursday send it to $14.97 a share.
July 24, 2018 India’s Adani sees six-fold rise in coal mining volume despite challenges in Australia Adani is looking to buy mines in countries such as Indonesia and is securing financing for its Carmichael mine in Australia amid challenges from environmental groups concerned about climate change…
July 24, 2018 Canada scaring mining investors with long, unclear permit processes Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past…
July 23, 2018 Debt financing doubles "Not a typical financing vehicle for non-revenue generating exploration companies."
July 19, 2018 Australia’s South32 beats annual coking coal output guidance Australian miner South32 Ltd beat its coking coal output guidance for fiscal 2018.
July 19, 2018 Miners wrote off almost one-third of investments over last decade From the $939bn invested in major projects between 2008 and 2017, the world’s top 40 mining companies by market cap. wrote-off $273bn or 29% of the initial capital outlay.
July 18, 2018 Trade war spills into uranium as U.S. weighs import tariffs The Trump administration began an investigation into whether uranium imports threaten national security, a move that may lead to tariffs on the nuclear power plant fuel.
How 2026 will reshape the US critical mineral resilience Emerging federal activity shows two key themes: growing support for high-risk minerals and renewed focus on domestic processing technologies. December 21, 2025 | 04:00 am
