August 12, 2016

US solar industry hailed as ‘light at end of tunnel’ for jobless coal miners

Study argues it would be cheap and simple to retrain coal workers for solar jobs.

August 11, 2016

CHARTS: Maybe India can ignite new commodity supercycle

Rapid, large-scale urbanization will see India's top three cities rival the combined economies of Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia.

August 11, 2016

INFOGRAPHIC: All US energy consumption in one giant diagram

This particular one shows the total estimated energy consumption in the United States in 2015, and how energy flowed from source to the final destination.

August 11, 2016

Asteroid miner Deep Space to launch first commercial mission by 2020

The mission's goal is to map a target asteroid, looking for deposits of water and other resources with visible and infrared cameras.

August 11, 2016

Here is why these mining and metals companies left the TSX

Experts blame increased number of mergers and acquisitions, but there’s more to it, study shows.

August 10, 2016

NWF Welcomes Feds’ Landmark Guidance on Coal-Mine Bonding

The Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has taken the significant step of recommending that states stop allowing coal companies to "self-bond," essentially pledge they have the…

August 10, 2016

Lenders throw a lifeline to bankrupt Peabody Energy

The coal giant also said it would review its assets in Australia to run a smaller but "more profitable" basis.

August 8, 2016

China’s war on coal keeps fuelling prices recovery — up 30% since April

Beijing’s decision to ease production has sent coal prices soaring this summer.

August 7, 2016

Bankrupt Peabody Energy seeks approval to pay $12M in bonuses

Coal miner Peabody Energy Corp, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April,asked a bankruptcy court on Wednesday to let it pay up to US$11.9 million in incentives to…

August 5, 2016

Rio Tinto sells Mount Pleasant coal

Takes Rio’s divestment tally to $4.7 billion over the last three years