September 17, 2012 China’s biggest bank dials down Aussie resource sector lending China's ICBC has announced a reduction in its lending to Australia's resource sector due to concerns that the mining boom is nearing an end.
September 17, 2012 Plunging profits mark the end of coal’s halcyon era in China The halcyon decade that China's coal industry has enjoyed since 2002 market reforms has reached its terminus with a major dive in first half profits this year.
September 17, 2012 Saskatchewan hopes to export $3bn in uranium to China Brad Wall, premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, says the negotiation of a nuclear agreement between Canada and China could lead to huge exports of uranium from the prairie…
September 16, 2012 Metal prices to crater in three years due to Chinese re-balancing A belated rebalancing of the Chinese economy will lead to a collapse in commodities prices by 2015 according one of the West's leading experts on the PRC's economy.
September 16, 2012 Natural gas is the trigger I was confident that the Fed had already begun printing. That seemed quite evident by the overall action in the commodity markets, the dollar, and the fact that stocks were…
September 16, 2012 INFOGRAPHIC: Japan’s debt crisis InformedTrades looks at the economic hole Japan has dug itself, especially since it gave up nuclear energy and started importing energy.
September 16, 2012 How China drives commodities down Australia's resources minister, Martin Ferguson, has caused a stir with his assertion that the country's mining boom, one of the biggest drivers of its economic growth, is "over". As he…
September 16, 2012 IMG wrestles with cons of coal block cancellation The governments high-level panel looking into the controversial coal block allocations for captive mining has decided against cancelling three...
September 16, 2012 Forget the fracking revolution, uranium still works: interview with CEO of Uranium Energy With record low natural gas prices and utilities switching to coal to take advantage, MINING.com asked Uranium Energy’s (NYSEAMEX:UEC) CEO Amir Adnani last month whether uranium is also struggling under…
September 16, 2012 Mining giants cut jobs Coal miners are cutting 900 jobs in Australia, in the latest sign that falling commodities prices and rising costs are taking their toll on the mining sector.
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