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.

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.