October 23, 2015 Miners sue state of Oregon over dredging ban aimed to protect salmon They argue Oregon's ban on using machines during in-stream mining of precious metals violates federal laws.
October 23, 2015 EPA mine spill could have been prevented, probe concludes The accident would have been avoided had the EPA team checked on water levels inside the abandoned mine before digging into its collapsed and leaking entrance, says document.
October 22, 2015 Caterpillar misses on earnings, slashes outlook The world's largest equipment maker not only reported lower quarterly profits, but also cut its 2015 earnings forecast and warned its revenue would fall even further next year.
October 22, 2015 Freeport logs third-quarter loss after massive oil and gas write-down The U.S’s largest mining company unveils plans to further slash copper and molybdenum output.
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.
US urges partners and allies to increase critical minerals supply chain resiliency Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted his counterparts in Washington to discuss solutions to secure and diversify supply chains for critical minerals. January 12, 2026 | 03:08 pm
