June 13, 2017 Weir Group expands into Asia with Singapore firm acquisition Move seeks strengthening the firm’s position as energy markets recover.
June 12, 2017 Coking coal price slides to 8-month low Cyclone Debbie forcing Asian steelmakers to diversify supply – Mozambique could be big beneficiary.
June 11, 2017 New met-coal mine opens in Pennsylvania President Donald Trump didn't waste the opportunity to press his pro-coal agenda by mentioning the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania.
June 10, 2017 Utah claims Bears Ears monument will kill uranium industry Utah officials claim the Bears Ears designation not only abused the Antiquities Act, but also undermines national security.
June 9, 2017 DOE funds $6.9M in projects to extract REEs from coal The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building on earlier funding into research aimed at pulling rare earth elements (REEs) from coal.
June 9, 2017 Glencore snatches Rio Tinto-owned mines from Yancoal with $2.55B offer Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON:GLEN) has performed a coup d'etat on a deal that was practically sealed between Yancoal Australia (ASX:YAL) and Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON:RIO) for Rio's coal…
June 9, 2017 Top 40 miners returned to profit in 2016: PwC Is the bad and the ugly over and the good returning to the mining industry? PwC seems to think so.
June 9, 2017 World’s first International Centre of Excellence on Coal Mine Methane opened in Poland The expert institution operating under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe will contribute to the development of new methods of capturing and use of methane as…
June 9, 2017 India hails Kazakhstan’s role as ‘number one’ supplier of uranium India and Kazakhstan have discussed ways to expand their ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana.
June 9, 2017 North Korea coal exports down to zero on China ban, UN cap Coal shipments from North Korea to China fell from 1.4 million tonnes, worth $126 million, in January to zero in April.
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
