June 25, 2012 Barclays: Commodity investors’ retreat is turning into a stampede The speed and extent of recent commodity price falls suggest market participants are anticipating a severe deterioration in the macroeconomic outlook.
June 25, 2012 Glencore, Lexshell consortium owns 71% of Optimum Coal A consortium comprising commodities trader Glencore and South African businessperson Cyril Ramaphosa’s Lexshell 849 has increased its shareholding in black economic-empowered Optimum Coal to just over 70%.
June 25, 2012 Coal prices sink again as Chinese storage yards near capacity Analysts are now saying that the world's second largest economy may not be the "long-term structural importer of thermal coal" suppliers have been betting on.
June 25, 2012 Rio Tinto makes first coal shipment from Mozambique Giant miner Rio Tinto said Monday that it has started exporting premium hard coking coal from its Mozambique Benga Mine, its first shipment of 34,000 tons has left the Port…
June 24, 2012 Mapping coal port expansion in the Pacific Northwest The Columbian, a newspaper out of Vancouver, WA, put together a handy map showing proposed development plans for six coal terminals in Oregon and Washington, the status of each along…
June 24, 2012 Doubts on Xstrata’s involvement MINING industry-owned Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal has selected four miners for its second-stage expansion.
June 24, 2012 BHP Billiton provides $1b silver lining The flagging fortunes of Australia's manufacturing industry have meant the Illawarra region has had a pretty rough trot over the past couple of years. Front and centre was the decision…
June 24, 2012 Coal export terminals would bring jobs, execs say There's no doubt global energy companies and railroads see profits if Washington and Oregon welcome coal exports. But coal backers say they'll bring large-scale benefits, including thousands of construction and…
June 24, 2012 Smaller coal miners operate below cost As many as 10 percent of Indonesian coal producers are operating mines below cost after prices for the commodity slumped amid weaker Asian demand, according to Australia & New Zealand…
June 24, 2012 Coal losing U.S. power struggle America is shoveling coal to the sidelines. The fuel that powered the United States from the industrial revolution into the iPhone era is being pushed aside as utilities switch to…
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
