April 30, 2012

Greenpeace puns iCoal, but the group may have its numbers wrong

Greenpeace recently published a new ad on YouTube that takes a swipe at Apple's reliance on coal to power its cloud computing services, however the environmental organization may have goofed…

April 30, 2012

The solar sector in India will boom because the government is incompetent: GigaOMtech

GigaOMtech predicts that the solar sector will do very well in India because the government is heavily involved in the coal and the oil and gas sector.

April 30, 2012

Mongolia’s mine law change unlikely to be retroactive – minister

Vice finance minister, Chuluun Ganhuyag, says the proposed new law will only apply to investment in certain deposits, but the list will go beyond the country's current list of strategic…

April 30, 2012

Veteran broker accuses BHP Billiton of destroying own wealth with bad decisions

From aborted takeover attempts for Rio Tinto and Potash Corp and what is seen as a disastrous successful one for Petrohawk, BHP Billiton is accused of making many bad decisions…

April 29, 2012

A significant paradigm shift in public activism

There has been a significant paradigm shift in public activism in Canada and a growing hostility toward mining and dogmatic opposition by environmentalists and social action groups toward virtually all…

April 29, 2012

For miners, coal is no longer hot

It's been a bleak spring for U.S. coal miners—and the question for Arch Coal Inc. ACI -1.66% and Alpha Natural Resources Inc. ANR -3.88% is whether they can even meet…

April 29, 2012

CoAL jumps through hoops to get Vele running

Fourteen months after being halted by the South African departments of water and environment, Coal of Africa's Vele mine has begun shipping its first coal.

April 29, 2012

Indian economy to grow despite politics over policy paralysis: Lakshmi Mittal

NRI business tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal on Sunday said India's economy will continue to grow despite politics over policy paralysis.

April 28, 2012

Arch said to seek buyers for several U.S. coal mines

Arch Coal Inc. (ACI), the fourth-largest U.S. producer of the fuel, is seeking buyers for several of its thermal-coal mines in the U.S., which together may fetch $600 million or…

April 27, 2012

UK Coal up 13% after swinging into profit

UK Coal (LON:UKC) turned a £124.6 million loss in 2010 into a pre-tax profit of £58 million last year as production and revenue jumped.