US emissions dropped 1.7% last year
The fall was driven by a flood of shale natural gas supply and renewable power increasingly displacing coal, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
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Iron ore prices keep falling despite a decrease in China’s inventories
After a 85% rise in 2016, iron ore prices are now down 3.2% so far this year, which has placed the commodity in a bear market.
Bacanora Minerals soars on deal to supply lithium to Japan’s Hanwa
Transaction will see the Tokyo-based trader acquiring up to 100% of the output coming from Bacanora's Sonora lithium project in Mexico.
Australia ready to begin exporting uranium to India — Prime Minister
Shipments will start almost nearly three years after the two countries signed an export deal for peaceful power generation.
BHP rejects activist fund Elliott urge to spin off US oil assets
Company says the associated risks of spinning off about $22 billion of its US oil assets and listing them in New York would significantly outweigh any potential benefits.
Potash junior teams up with Indian conglomerate to build new mine in Saskatchewan
JV company Vanguard Potash Corp would develop a small 250,000 tonnes per annum potash mine, initially.
U3O8 Corp. stakes the old La Niquelina uranium-cobalt-nickel mine
Mineralization was discovered at La Niquelina in 1944, with modest production from a small underground mine in the early 1950's.
Alderon offers $1 million for part of Wabush Mines to use as tailings disposal for Kami
Alderon Iron Ore Corp. will purchase assets related to the Scully Mine for the purpose of disposing tailings produced from its flagship Kami project
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