January 25, 2013

Anglo American reports Q4 drops in iron ore and platinum production

Anglo's iron ore and platinum production dips in Q4

January 25, 2013

Port okays controversial coal expansion

Neptune Terminals upgrade will increase handling to 18.5 million tonnes per year.

January 25, 2013

Deloitte, Ernst & Young apparently botched Caterpillar’s China due diligence

Financial Times is reporting that Deloitte was in charge of auditing the working capital for ERA, while Ernst & Young conducted overall evaluation of the transaction.

January 25, 2013

Mining billionaire Batista denies suspension of coal projects in Colombia

The mining magnate continues to believe in his Colombian coal projects, despite the unfavourable market scenario.

January 25, 2013

Problems at the world’s largest coking coal mine escalate

Mongolia is planning to cancel China coal-supply contract, and has delayed Tavan Tolgoi's IPO.

January 24, 2013

Chinese regulators to give go-ahead to Xstrata-Glencore merger

Officials indicate they have no reasons to refuse the proposed take-over

January 23, 2013

Beijing plans coal pollution clampdown

450 heavy-polluting coal plants will be closed

January 23, 2013

Coal export proposals are number one threat to the climate in the US: Greenpeace

Coal export expansions in the United States would release more carbon pollution than any other new US fossil fuel project, according to the most report from Greenpeace.

January 23, 2013

BHP axes coal costs, fuels aluminum writedown speculation

In its half-year production update, BHP highlighted challenges faced by its aluminum and nickel businesses.

January 23, 2013

Brazil’s Eike Batista to delist coal firm CCX

The world of mining's richest entrepreneur is trying to recover investors’ trust and bump up his shrinking business empire.