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Dover West Leduc. (Image courtesy of Athabasca Oil) PetroChina (NYSE:PTR), the Asian country’s largest oil major by market value, no longer wants a stake in…
MINING.com toured Chile’s El Teniente mine, the world's largest underground copper operation and the sixth biggest copper mine by reserve size.Codelco's El Teniente mine, the…
Oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Alberta, the heart of Canada’s oil sand industry and the country’s richest province, is “most likely” headed for a…
The ban is expected to encourage a more efficient use of coal, which has been blamed for China’s severe air pollution troubles. (Creative Commons image…
China has scrapped its controversial quotas on rare earths exports and is likely to replace them with a resources tax, eliminating a policy that sparked…
Oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The European Union voted by an extremely narrow majority Wednesday against a proposed fuel quality directive that would have…
Aerial view of Sunrise Energy Project. (Image courtesy of Husky Energy) Energy giant BP (NYSE:BP) and partner Husky Energy (TSX:HSE) announced Friday they’ve kicked off…
Oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice met his Ontario peer Kathleen Wynne Wednesday as he presses for approval of TransCanada’s (NYSE,…
El Teniente is the world's biggest underground copper mine and the sixth largest copper mine by reserve size. Chile's mining industry, responsible for around a…
Demonstrators outside hearings for the Matoush uranium project. (Image from archives) A group of young members of the James Bay Cree Nation began an 800-kilometre…
Goldman Sachs, the biggest trading firm on Wall Street, will wind down its uranium trading business and may sell its coal mine subsidiary in Colombia,…
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Quebec Environment Minister David Heurtel has set seven conditions TransCanada (NYSE, TSE:TRP) will have to meet before the provincial government lets the…
Image via WikiMedia Commons. As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favour of approving TransCanada Corp.'s (TSX, NYSE:TRP) controversial Keystone XL oil…
Image copyright: Adam J | Shutterstock.comTwo of the world’s largest mining companies, BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) and Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) called world leaders on Thursday to…
BHP's oil rig Gulf of Mexico. World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (NYSE, ASX:BHP) plans to export ultra-light oil from the U.S. without getting formal approval…
Enbridge's plan to reverse the flow of its L9 pipeline running between southern Ontario and Montreal has been delayed. Enbridge Inc. (TSX, NYSE:ENB), Canada’s largest…
Mackenzie is confident in the process of spinning off part of BHP's business, which will leave the miner with a higher quality core of 19…
The US$33 billion expansion plan was shelved in 2012.World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) said Friday that plans to resume expansion at its massive Olympic…
Planetary Resources, the U.S.-based start-up aiming to mine in space, lost its first test satellite aboard the commercial rocket that exploded only six seconds after…
Rescue workers have been pumping water out of a coal mine in southern Turkey all night, but hopes of finding alive all or some of…