October 24, 2011 Aquila Resources – Washpool Hard Coking Coal Project Rail Transport Agreement Aquila Resources Limited (ASX:AQA "the Company" or "Aquila") is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Washpool Coal Pty Ltd ("Washpool") has signed a Rail Transportation Agreement with QR…
October 23, 2011 Railways chokes on coal short supply Coal Ministry mandarins recently summoned senior officials of State-owned coal companies and reportedly urged them to pull up their socks or face consequences. The reason: a large number of power…
October 23, 2011 Hedge Funds Raise Bullish Bets Most in Two Months: Commodities (For more commodity columns, click CMMKT.) Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds increased bullish bets on commodities by the most since August on mounting optimism the global economy will avoid…
October 23, 2011 Boss Power has $30 million burning a hole in its pocket Boss Power (CVE:BPU), which successfully settled a lawsuit on Thursday with the Province of British Columbia, is now looking at ways to spend […]
October 23, 2011 New, modernized coal mine revives Trinidad’s past The depths of the New Elk Coal Mine near Trinidad are white. The miners who work several thousand feet below the earth’s surface are dusted in white powder, too. While…
October 23, 2011 China’s Jan-Sep coal consumption up 10.3 pct (MENAFN) China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said that in 2011's first nine months, the country's consumption of coal grew 10.3 percent to 2.28 billion metric tons, reported Xinhua…
October 23, 2011 New taxes unlikely to slow investment Source: The Australian THE introduction of new taxes and concerns about the global economic outlook will not slow mining investment in Australia, forecast to reach $80 billion a year by…
October 23, 2011 Pacific Coal Resources Ltd. announces updates to purchases under normal course issuer bid Pacific Coal Resources Ltd. (TSXV: PAK) announced today that it has purchased for cancellation, to date, a total of 4,595,500 common shares in the capital of the Company at an…
October 23, 2011 Basic commodities reserve enough for another 4 months, says official The strategic reserves of Egypt's basic commodities are enough for the next four months, said an official source on Sunday. Ahmed Fatahy Abdel Aziz, head of the Control and Distribution…
October 23, 2011 A ‘Renewable’ That’s Worse Than Coal Proponents of waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities have a good point: the amount of plastic that we throw away in the United States could generate enough electricity to power over 16 million…
Lithium swings from glut to scarcity on Asia demand, Traxys says One of the world’s biggest lithium traders is seeing a turnaround in the battery metal market as accelerating demand ends a glut that dragged down prices. January 16, 2026 | 01:05 pm