February 5, 2015

Obama pulls plug on $1.65 billion carbon-capture project

The DOE says there was some benefit from the $116 million already spent.

February 5, 2015

Raymond James analyst’s four top picks for the coming uranium upswing

Uranium spot prices have shown more life recently, says David Sadowski, mining equity research analyst at Raymond James, and he expects upward pressure to continue as utilities resume buying to…

February 4, 2015

Miners begin to find a ‘level of stability’

For the companies that are doing well, it is a good time to grow within their markets.

February 4, 2015

Russia stashes 55 tonnes of gold in Switzerland

Customs data shows the world's second largest gold miner Russia exported 58 tonnes to be refined in Switzerland last year, but got less than 3 tonnes back.

February 4, 2015

Mongolian verdict sends chill through mining community

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

February 4, 2015

State of global economy among the Canadian mining industry’s top issues

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

February 3, 2015

Lots of new fees for hardrock miners in BLM budget

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

February 3, 2015

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

February 2, 2015

Gold bears too complacent about Grexit

Gold price pullback since vote hides real possibility of Greek debt default, euro exit and displays overconfidence in ECB's ability to limit contagion says report.

February 2, 2015

Weak 2014 numbers worsen an already bad outlook for coal companies

Some coal-industry executives insist—despite all the evidence that suggests otherwise—on an inevitable turnaround in the years ahead.