April 30, 2012

Sierra Club continues Kemper coal-plant legal battle

Sierra Club officials in Mississippi are continuing a legal fight to stop construction of a $2.88 billion coal-gasification power plant by a Southern Co utility in Kemper County, Mississippi.

April 30, 2012

Fascinating video: growth of shipping around the globe over the past 250 years

Cool.

April 30, 2012

Gold Shakes Off $1.24 Billion ‘Fat Finger’

April 30, 2012

Junior mine developer Rubicon snatches Goldcorp veteran for top spot

Michael Lalonde is jumping ship from Goldcorp to Rubicon Minerals as the latter moves its Phoenix gold project in the Red Lake district through to production.

April 30, 2012

India’s new uranium mine may host one of world’s largest reserves

In what is considered a major milestone in the Indian nuclear program, the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) commissioned last week a new uranium mine, which may host one…

April 30, 2012

Imports likely down 30% as gold hits all-time rupee high

Indian gold imports are likely to plummet this year as a crashing currency and new taxes send domestic gold prices soaring.

April 30, 2012

Greenpeace puns iCoal, but the group may have its numbers wrong

Greenpeace recently published a new ad on YouTube that takes a swipe at Apple's reliance on coal to power its cloud computing services, however the environmental organization may have goofed…

April 30, 2012

Teck cashes in on Chile’s copper

For centuries, pilgrims have thronged to the Chilean mountain town of Andacollo – to worship at the historic church and to mine the dusty hills for copper. Now a new…

April 30, 2012

Memo to the NDP and Greens: don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

Resource jobs are in danger because the province's elites are 'detached from economic reality', according to a Vancouver Sun editorial.

April 30, 2012

The solar sector in India will boom because the government is incompetent: GigaOMtech

GigaOMtech predicts that the solar sector will do very well in India because the government is heavily involved in the coal and the oil and gas sector.