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The rapid pace of energy exploration, for both natural gas and oil, in North Dakota is creating a crisis for upper Midwest farmers. Grain shipments…
“I do want Australia to be an energy superpower in the years ahead. We have large reserves of uranium. We have massive reserves of coal.…
Earlier today, my colleague Stuart put low oil and natural gas prices in perspective, showing that demand has risen considerably of late.Cold weather and consumers…
The media has dubbed it “Coalgate” after the infamous Watergate scandal of the 1970s, and the alleged multi-million dollar scam, still to be proven in…
Japan has sealed its new “friendship” in the world of rare earths by formally signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India for imports of…
A lot of people seem to be trying to find reasons to buy silver.In fact, there appear so few detractors that you wonder why it…
Crude oil prices spike. Copper tanks. Cotton and coffee can’t make up their minds. The price graphs you see look more and more like they’re…
Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing…
Never, it would seem, has the oil market been in such a state of disarray. Brent crude, the global benchmark, hit US$117 per barrel this…
Media reports suggests that India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first…
Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It can create so much wealth, spur so much research and progress that we sometimes take on blind faith that…
State-controlled Coal India Limited (CIL) announced that it has lowered its production target for the fiscal year to 440 million metric tons, down from the…
In a major policy change, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard declared on Nov. 15 that her ruling Labour Party would reverse its ban on selling…
On Tuesday, the New York Times ran a story stating Molycorp, currently America’s only operating rare earth materials producer, will soon announce a heavy rare…
The Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is aiming to provide a coal supply line to the rapidly growing Indian thermal coal market. Indian business daily…
We don’t normally look to Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, as a luminary of the financial world. Not that Mr. King isn’t…
India’s coal reserves have been assessed at about 286 billion tons this year, about 3.25 percent higher than the previous year’s 276.8 billion tons, according…
Recent research on coal imports in India has worried the country’s steelmakers, which are already under pressure from the rise in iron ore prices and…