June 21, 2015 Met-coal plumbs decade lows Hobbled by too much supply and not enough demand, especially in China, the coal needed to produce steel has fallen to levels not seen since 2004.
June 21, 2015 China’s energy demand may not increase until 2017 In this post I revisit the energy production and consumption data for China looking for clues about the future direction of global energy markets.
June 18, 2015 Fission 60 Hole Program to Target R600W and Triple R Growth Plus Regional Targets Aggressive drilling to be accompanied by radon survey targeting the key EM conductor from Triple R deposit to the high-grade boulder field
June 17, 2015 INFOGRAPHIC: Every Chinese overseas investment over $100m visualized Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions, this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.
June 17, 2015 SNL Energy: Narrow band of 16 Central Appalacia counties ‘Ground Zero’ in coal job free fall Unsurprisingly, coal mine employment has continued to fall as coal-fired power plants nationwide are shuttered over regulations and lower natural gas prices, but a narrow band of counties stretching through…
June 16, 2015 Mining industry inertia will come at a price PwC's John Gravelle on the mining industry's austerity drive, price realities and declining exploration spending.
June 16, 2015 The dark side of the shale bust The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows.
June 16, 2015 Chris and Michael Berry: What the boomers got wrong—and right—about natural resource investing The Gold Report, quizzed Chris and Dr. Michael Berry, authors of the Disruptive Discoveries Journal, on how investing has changed over the years in the gold, silver, niche metals and…
June 16, 2015 Imperial Oil begins production at Kearl oil sands as expansion completed early Production is expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day, bringing total production to 220,000 barrels per day.
June 15, 2015 Gold price: First signs of Greek contagion After a more-than-likely Greek debt default the focus "may soon move on to the far more serious issue of potential Greek exit from the euro-zone itself."
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
