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Investors wanting exposure to gold or other precious metals have an array of options, whether it is buying the physical items or purchasing mining stocks, commodity indices or exchange-traded funds. With diamonds the...
Rio Tinto, the global mining company that faced a huge debt burden a year ago, continued its recapitalisation drive as it netted $741m (£450m) by spinning off US coal assets. Cloud Peak Energy, which started trading on the New...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/09 -- J-Pacific Gold Inc. (the "Company" or "J-Pacific") (TSX VENTURE: JPN) announced today that is has appointed John P. Thompson, M.Sc., P.Eng., as the Company's Chief...
Why the tar sands are important for anti-military campaigning The extraction of dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands is having an immense regional and global environmental impact and driving the planet towards catastrophic...
CME Group Inc., the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the launch of trading and clearing services for a new physically delivered Gulf Coast sour crude oil futures contract. Trading will...
When I was a young high school punk, I had the good fortune of attending Jim Peckham's wrestling camp. Coach Peckham was the 1976 USA Olympic wrestling coach. He had cauliflower ears and a face that looked like he chased parked...
As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. Nabucco and the competing projects Nabucco is a 3,300 km natural gas...
TD Waterhouse customers turned to the telecoms and mining sectors last week, as both sectors accounted for 41 per cent of top ten trading activity. Commenting, Angus Rigby, chief executive officer at TD Waterhouse said: "FTSE...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cloud Peak Energy Inc , a unit of Rio Tinto Plc, fell in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday after its shares priced below expectations in the U.S. coal miner's initial public offering.
DIMOCK, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Residents of a small rural Pennsylvania town sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp on Friday, claiming the company's natural-gas drilling has contaminated their water wells with toxic chemicals, caused...
