China to continue expanding its influence in the oil and gas sector
Since 2009, China has been taking a much more active role in its pursuit of international oil contracts.
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Skeena announces $6 million financing
Financing will primarily be used for exploration on the Spectrum high-grade gold project and the recently acquired GJ project.
UK local council pensions lose over $1 billion with coal crash
The decline in coal share prices has affected the pensions of millions of bus drivers, librarians, park attendants, school workers, housing officers and care workers, a new study from Platform London shows.
Gold price jumps to 3-month high
Hedge fund bulls drive gold price into breakout territory as Middle-East war hots up.
Mick Davis first investment a $3bn contrarian gamble
Mick Davis' X2 Resources has emerged as the last remaining bidder for Rio Tinto’s coal assets in Australia’s Hunter Valley.
The secrets of junior mining private equity risk managers
A few years ago, there was a perception that private equity was going to come in and wash away the junior sector's worries about insufficient capital.
South Africa gold companies face massive lung disease suit
Hundreds of thousands of workers are suing 32 gold mining firms after contracting silicosis and tuberculosis working the country's ultra-deep gold mines.
Another two copper mines added to Glencore fire sale
Glencore's Cobar in New South Wales and Chile operation Lomas Bayas could fetch anything between $500m and $1 billion.
China launches massive military manhunt for coal mine killers
Helicopters, drones search 16,000 square km area sealed off to find perpetrators of knife attack that killed 60 workers at a northwestern Chinese coal mine.
