At least 20 miners were killed, and seven others injured, after unidentified gunmen attacked a coal mine in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to police reports quoted by local…
Betty Jean Hall, a pioneering lawyer who dedicated her life to advocating for women in the mining industry, passed away on Aug. 16, at the age of 78. Her work…
Canada’s rail disruption has ended after Ottawa imposed binding arbitration but cargo piled in loading yards could take a few weeks to sort out, officials said. Workers at Canadian National…
Ottawa has stepped in to end a rare strike halting both of Canada’s major railways less than a day after it began. Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon on Thursday afternoon ordered…
Teck Resources‘ (TSX: TECK.B) former coal unit has been handed fines totalling approximately $221,000 for nearly 30 cases of environmental breaches in southeastern British Columbia over a two-year period. On…
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) followed shareholder opposition and scrapped on Wednesday plans to separate its coal division, which it had announced following its acquisition of assets last year from Teck Resources…
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) swung to a loss in the first half of the year after taking a fresh US$1.6 billion writedown on its Woodsmith fertilizer project in the U.K.,…
Telling the stories of reinvented coal mining regions, regenerated communities and rebuilt ecosystems, a new book published this month – 102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground…
Environment Canada has laid five charges against Teck Coal Ltd. after the company was alleged to have dumped substances harmful to fish into waters near its Ek Valley operations in…
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) is said to be studying potential takeover bids for smaller rivals, including Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A, TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada’s largest diversified…
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) is said to have formally kicked off a process to divest its coal assets, enlisting the services of three top banks as part of a broader…
The federal government has approved the $9.5-billion sale of Teck Resources’ (TSX: TECK.A, TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) coal business to Swiss-based resource giant Glencore (LSE: GLEN). Teck agreed in November to sell the…