Mining jobs finally picking up in Australia
This is probably the headline most people who have lost their jobs in the last two years were dying to read.
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Suncor Energy sells Petro-Canada Lubricants business for $1.125 billion
Sale includes PCLI's production and manufacturing centre in Mississauga, Ontario and the global marketing and distribution assets held by PCLI including its global offices.
Gold, rate hikes and the US Presidential Election
The next ten days or so will present gold with two major events both of which could impact on gold in different ways depending on their particular outcome.
Equity markets all but closed for mining IPOs
Miners have to look at debt, private investors and alternative financing like pre-pays for growth capital according to new report.
Glencore closes another zinc mine
Black Star deposit at Mount Isa in Australia depleted after 13 years of operation.
Renewables beat coal as largest source of power capacity
While coal continues to crank out electricity for millions of people in developing nations, renewable energy is rapidly catching up and last year, overtook coal as the world's largest source of installed power capacity.
12 schools in Salzburg evacuated after radioactive rock discovered
Educators in the Austrian city of Salzburg hit the panic button after the unintended discovery of a radioactive rock in a science classroom.
Canadian miners trapped in elevator
Four employees at Agrium's Vanscoy potash mine spent six hours in an industrial elevator.
Clinton, Australian anti-coal activists, and Wikileaks
According to Wikileaks, activists opposing Adani's Carmichael coal mine in Australia have been receiving funding from an American organization.
