June 21, 2012 PHOTOS: Rioting Spanish coal miners fire homemade rockets With subsidies to Spain's coal industry about to be yanked, striking workers are ratcheting up the pressure on the government and clashing violently with police.
June 21, 2012 Xstrata to pay $342 million to execs after Glencore merger triggers ‘red-top alert’ The unusual alert, considered the Association of British Insurer's most serious warning, indicates a breach in corporate governance.
June 20, 2012 India ‘condemning’ millions to stay poor, says Lakshmi Mittal Joining the likes of NR Narayana Murthy and Azim Premji to blame the Indian government for policy inaction, UK-based NRI billionaire LN Mittal has said the country is potentially condemning…
June 20, 2012 The US will close 30 refineries by 2020 due to collapsing demand: Verleger Noted oil economist, Philip Verleger, says the US is moving to energy independence because of the recent innovations in oil production and demand destruction in the country.
June 19, 2012 The only five rare earth elements that matter: Jack Lifton There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus…
June 19, 2012 Comparing the 2012 bottom to past bottoms Mark Twain said that history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes.
June 19, 2012 Dem bill would halt new mountaintop coal mines pending health study House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would require a comprehensive study of the health dangers related to mountaintop removal coal mining. More controversially, the bill would also halt all new…
June 19, 2012 Our current policy makers are going to make sure that the Fiat monetary system remains Intact, at any cost. Thanks to all the media hype about the Greek elections, many people around the world were beguiled into believing that this small country had the power to decide the fate…
June 19, 2012 Peabody coal exec Paul Demzik quits Paul Demzik, president of U.S. coal major Peabody Energy's Coaltrade International subsidiary recently left the company to pursue other interests, a Peabody spokeswoman said in an emailed response on Tuesday.
June 19, 2012 Uranium market to pick up as reactors come back Australia-based Foster Stockbroking said Tuesday that an industry-wide restart would boost global uranium demand by 30 million pounds a year which could act as a catalyst to flagging uranium prices.
Skeena secures environmental assessment certificate for Eskay Creek mine in BC The Tahltan Nation’s consent to the project is embedded within the EAC, marking a historic first in Canada. January 27, 2026 | 01:13 pm
