February 5, 2015

Mongolia text poll impact: Dust off your exploration plans

Mongolia may give up government shareholding in mining projects altogether.

February 5, 2015

Obama pulls plug on $1.65 billion carbon-capture project

The DOE says there was some benefit from the $116 million already spent.

February 4, 2015

Mongolian verdict sends chill through mining community

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

February 3, 2015

Lots of new fees for hardrock miners in BLM budget

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

February 3, 2015

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

February 2, 2015

Weak 2014 numbers worsen an already bad outlook for coal companies

Some coal-industry executives insist—despite all the evidence that suggests otherwise—on an inevitable turnaround in the years ahead.

February 2, 2015

China’s slower growth stalling price recovery for B.C. commodities

Hardest hit of all B.C. commodities has been metallurgical coal, which is suffering from a double whammy.

February 2, 2015

CAT, Komatsu, Volvo slapped with antitrust suit

International Construction Products alleges Big 3 manufacturers are colluding to keep the 1-year old company from selling cheap Chinese equipment in the US.

February 2, 2015

‘Now is a good time to deploy capital’ – private equity group secures $450 million

No money for iron ore.

February 1, 2015

HD pushes forward with proposed $300m coal mine near Tumbler Ridge

British Columbia was accepting comments until Thursday (January 29) on a proposal for the Murray River coal river mine that HD Mining wants to build near Tumbler Ridge.