Governments hate competition. Due to record breaking gold prices this year, more unauthorized gold exchanges have been created to capitalize on gold fever.

NANNING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- China Shenhua Group Co. Ltd., the country's largest coal producer, has signed an agreement to build Asia's largest thermal power project in southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The Atlantic profiles Christmas light recyclers, a job that moved to China when the environmental restrictions in the U.S. became too onerous.

A Pennsylvania research group has challenged the findings from Cornell University, which found that the carbon footprint of natural gas derived from shale is greater than the production of coal.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 27, 2011) - Columbus Silver Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CSC) ("Columbus Silver") is pleased to announce that Santa Fe Gold Corporation (OTCBB:SFEG) ("Santa Fe") has announced it has obtained conditional debt financing to complete its acquisition of Columbus Silver.

Outotec has come up with two new roasting processes for eliminating impurities from copper and gold concentrates.

The head of research for China's Central Banl says that the country should buy gold as the only safe place for risk averse investors when other assets are losing value

China has set the first tranche of rare earths export quotas for 2012 with more in reserve for firms that have not yet passed inspections. The biggest producer Baotou Rare Earth is still awaiting environmental approval

In a ruling that will be felt most heavily by older coal-burning power plants, the United States Environmetal Protection Agency announced new regulations last week to limit emissions of toxic air pollutants like mercury, arsenic and metals.