October 27, 2015

US Global’s Frank Holmes and Brian Hicks: The one essential to transform your resources portfolio? Patience

If you add patience to your portfolio management strategy, holding discounted oil and gas and metals mining stocks is one way to leverage the price equilibrium that will come when…

October 26, 2015

Fission Announces Adoption of Advance Notice By-Law

FISSION URANIUM CORP. today announced that its board of directors has approved an amendment to its by-laws by adding an advance notice provision regarding the nomination of directors effective October…

October 26, 2015

Weak metal prices to hit miners through 2016 — Moody’s

The situation, says the ratings agency, won’t change over the next 12 to 18 months, and metal prices may fall even further.

October 26, 2015

More holidays, less coal: Chinese media’s five-year plan wish lists

Top Communist Party officials are gathering in Beijing this week to chart China’s economic development for the latter half of this decade – and already, the country’s state-run media are…

October 26, 2015

Rio’s controversial Warkworth coal mine extension close to final approval

The NSW Department of Planning has recommended conditional approval of the much needed and long-debated mine expansion, as its current permit expires in June 2017.

October 26, 2015

Rick Rule: I am too wise to call a bottom in mining

Rick has seen too many cycles to answer a question like that.

October 26, 2015

Day of reckoning for US shale will have to wait

October has been billed as a pivotal month in which indebted shale companies would see their credit lines cut, precipitating a faster consolidation in the industry that would sow the…

October 25, 2015

24 states line up to block Obama’s Clean Power Plan

President Obama's climate change plan has run up against some serious opposition among 24 states that are challenging it in federal court.

October 23, 2015

Ex pipeline exec: Keystone XL can still be salvaged if Canada acts on climate

The retired executive thinks Keystone XL project can still be salvaged if incoming Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau acts swiftly on climate change.

October 23, 2015

Canada’s oil sands using less water — report

Oil sands companies used 1.5 barrels of water from the Athabasca River to produce one barrel of bitumen in 2014, compared to 2.2. barrels of water in 2012.