December 14, 2012

U3O8 Corp. announces $1.5 million private placement

The non-brokered private placement is of up to 6,819,000 units at a price of $0.22 per unit for total gross proceeds of up to approximately $1.5 million.

December 13, 2012

Scientists find mega-oil field … 1,300 light years away

Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth.

December 13, 2012

Colombian armed rebels tighten control over gold mining

Mining, not drugs, main income source for the revolutionary groups in Colombia.

December 13, 2012

Let’s test you for black lung. Whoops!

"You've got to blow very hard, Tim"

December 13, 2012

Coal-hungry Chinese buy out Australian pastoral clans

Chinese investment drive leaves pastoral community divided

December 13, 2012

Bumi spurns Rothschild’s proposal in business clash with Bakries

Embattled Indonesian miner Bumi has decided to toss its lot in with the prominent Sumatran business dynasty

December 13, 2012

Keystone XL: Welcome to the proxy energy war

Now that elections are over, everyone is waiting for a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, but it's not so easy amid the atmosphere of protests that have even traditionally…

December 12, 2012

Gold and real estate are my hedges for the fiscal cliff

With nary a glimmer of hope that economic sense will supplant political expedience, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research Founder Porter Stansberry expects rampant inflation to roar in once the cost…

December 12, 2012

A critical year in review: what’s next?

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to extend our coverage further, we are revisiting our most popular expert interviews from 2012.

December 12, 2012

Aussie mining boom is far from bust – shift to operational stage will see better spreading of benefits

Spoils of the country's resources bounty will be better distributed as the mining sector enters an operational phase