June 10, 2012

SA coal juniors should focus on local market – analyst

Junior coal miners need to shift attention to domestic market, cash in on drop in export prices, says commodities analyst.

June 9, 2012

Chop-fest

What a whippy week it was. Volatility spiked and then subsided into the end of the week which meant it was a great day-trading environment but then that petered off…

June 9, 2012

Churchill Mining’s US$2 billion lawsuit against Indonesia gets lift from NY Times

British coal miner, Churchill Mining (LON:CHL), and its case against the Indonesia government got a leg up when its two-year legal battle was profiled in the New York Times.

June 9, 2012

An 1865 economic study of coal explains why bankers and financial firms will pay more for IT and resource companies will pay less

William Jevons, a British economist, was looking at his country’s dwindling coal supplies in the mid-1800s and was asked if increased efficiency in […]

June 8, 2012

Damn the torpedoes

Last week in an interview on CBS Network News, Economist Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody's, unwittingly revealed a central error of the global economic establishment. Zandi has made…

June 8, 2012

Funding for oil sands monitoring still under discussion a year later

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says its members still haven’t decided how they’re going to pay their share of the new oil sands monitoring program.

June 8, 2012

Strong-dollar fallacy

After a shocking upset in Greece’s parliamentary elections, the US dollar surged dramatically.

June 8, 2012

The shareholders are revolting! Alberta Oilsands jumps after proxy battle is triggered

Alberta Oilsands  (TSX-V:AOS) added 9% on Wednesday, after a group  of  "concerned shareholders" said they are filing a dissident circular and are in the process of mailing to shareholders of the…

June 8, 2012

Conservative group’s $1 million ad buy seeks votes to kill coal rule

A conservative advocacy group says it's spending almost $1 million on ads to corral support for an upcoming Senate effort to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules that require cuts in…

June 8, 2012

Minerals Council of Australia accuses unions of racism

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has condemned unions, saying they are running a nonsensical "race-based" campaign.