October 22, 2015

Teck Resources swings to loss after $1.7 billion charge

Earnings, however, beat analysts’ estimates as Canada’s largest diversified miner cut costs to deal with weak commodity prices.

October 22, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Europe’s electricity consumption by country and fuel type

The major story here is the decline in consumption of fossil fuels.

October 22, 2015

Reshuffling the deck in the Mideast

The U.S. presence in the Middle East, which for years provided some control over one of the world's most volatile regions, appears to have dissolved into chaos.

October 21, 2015

Greenpeace to keep coal in the ground by buying some of Europe’s largest mines

The environmental group is after Vattenfall's lignite business in eastern Germany, in a bid to scale back the operations put up for sale by the Swedish state-owned energy giant.

October 21, 2015

Canada’s Ivanhoe to start copper production at new DRC mine in 2018

The Vancouver-based miner estimates that Kamoa, discovered in 2007, holds the equivalent of at least 45 million tonnes of pure copper.

October 21, 2015

Alrosa sells less than half the diamonds it mined

The rough-diamond miner extracted about 11.6 million carats in Q3, or 20% more than in the same period last year. However, it could only sell 4.9 million carats.

October 20, 2015

Japan admits first possible case of cancer linked to Fukushima

The worker who developed leukemia was exposed to less radiation than many, said authorities, which suggests that the number of compensation cases could spike.

October 20, 2015

Construction of giant York Potash mine to begin next year

The $3.15 billion project will tap into the world’s largest and highest grade deposit of polyhalite, used as a fertilizer, inside the North York Moors National Park.

October 20, 2015

China’s weak demand for diamonds drags sector into slump

Prices for the precious rocks have fallen almost 12% in the past year, amid weakening diamond jewellery demand from China, the second largest consumer after the U.S.

October 20, 2015

Newcrest gold output falls 13% on fatalities, mechanical flops

Suspensions at two of the company's main mines have caused Newcrest to miss estimated production targets.