November 4, 2013

Australia’s mining slowdown will set off ‘wave of consolidation’

New report predicts Australian mining sector growth to fall sharply through 2017 and pressure of weakening mineral prices will spark industry consolidation.

November 3, 2013

Embrace nuclear energy: Climate scientists to environmental groups

Wind and solar power won't be enough to prevent extreme climate change, top climate scientists say in open letter to environmental groups.

November 3, 2013

First signs of a slow down in global CO2 emissions

The rate at which CO2 emissions are rising has slowed, although total emissions reached a record high in 2012.

October 30, 2013

Cameco’s profit up 324%, Cigar Lake mine to begin production in Q1 2014

The miner's shares were up close to 6% in both Canada and the US stock exchanges.

October 29, 2013

Cameco’s investors told to not hold their breath over Cigar Lake

Canadian miner may not kick-off its Cigar Lake uranium project in early 2014 after all.

October 25, 2013

Fukushima on yellow alert after 7.3 earthquake, tsunami warning in Japan

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co has ordered workers to evacuate facilities and move to higher ground.

October 25, 2013

Greenland says yes to uranium mining

Parliament voted Thursday to end a decades-long ban on mining for radioactive materials.

October 23, 2013

Iranian lawmaker speaks out on 20% uranium enrichment bargaining chip

"Currently no need is felt for production of 20 per cent-enriched uranium."

October 21, 2013

Despite Fukushima, global nuclear power on the rise

One outgrowth of the U.S. super-secret WW2 Manhattan Project, which produced the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, six years later, in 1951, a small experimental reactor in the…

October 21, 2013

About 50% of B.C. junior miners won’t be around by 2015—report

The 15 mining executives interviewed said this is "healthy" and part of the industry’s "natural cycle."