Copper price jump: China concentrate imports hit record
Copper price up 37% from January's six-year low as Chinese concentrate and ore imports surge.
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Coking coal price savaged – biggest drop in 17 months
Just as quarterly benchmark negotiations between miners and Japanese steel mills kick off, the coking coal price comes off the boil.
MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine forced to file new environmental plan
The move is part of the new government's strategy to rebuild trust on the project following deadly protests that halted exports from the mine in October.
Cenovus resuming Christina Lake oil sands expansion, boosts capex
Construction of the 50,000-barrel-a-day expansion will begin in the first half of 2017, the company said.
Trump could fuel a nuclear energy boom in 2017
For the vast untapped potential of the nuclear energy industry and the uranium that feeds it, this could contribute to a market-disrupting revival that no longer bows to fear and the politics of economy.
Anglo American about to make key decision on South African assets sale
While the miner is not longer being pressed to include its platinum assets in the divestment plan, the issue of how to package mines and which ones to include, remains a bone of contention.
Trump not mining’s sole option to stop onerous EPA mine bonding program
Industry claims the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and state regulatory agencies already possess what miners contend are adequate financial guarantee programs.
Risk of potential oil tanker spill ‘close to zero’ — experts
Pipeline ruptures, bunker fuel spills pose a greater risk than a major oil tanker spill, they say.
The bottom for uranium stocks is in!
Uranium stocks are about to go nuclear and you read it here first at Palisade Research!
