July 15, 2015

BHP Billiton to take a $2.8 billion write-down on US assets

With this impairment BHP will have written down its oil and gas business by more than $4 billion since 2011.

July 14, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Data shows investing is heavily biased by Geography

For investors, there’s no place like home. Data shows that investors are heavily sector-biased based on where they live.

July 13, 2015

First time ever: Gas overtakes coal in US power mix

Already battered by increasingly onerous regulations on pollution from power generation, U.S. coal miners are now suffering the impact of cheap natural gas on the industry.

July 10, 2015

End of an era for UK coal mining — last mines close up shop

It marks the end of a three-century industry that once employed over a million workers in the U.K.

July 8, 2015

This tiny US mining town began burning 52 years ago and never stopped

The former mining town of Centralia, in Pennsylvania, has been on fire since 1962, when a coal seam running into a mine shaft set on fire. It hasn't stopped ever…

July 8, 2015

SNL Energy’s latest coal forecast, and gas-fired generation overtakes coal burn for 1st time

Coal market prices continued to trade under pressure in June, with weather retaining shoulder-season qualities in the primary coal using regions.

July 8, 2015

NSW conditional approval for new coal mine slammed

Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has hit out at the Government's decision to give conditional approval for a huge open-cut coal mine near prime agricultural land.

July 8, 2015

UN Human Rights unit roasts Canada over mining, aboriginal treatment

The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.

July 8, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC – Crisis investing: How 14 asset classes performed in times of distress

Today's infographic compares how 14 different asset classes have performed during the last five crises.

July 7, 2015

China panic crushes mining stocks

Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.