Renewables
Korean Renewables Pass Coal, Grid Lags
South Korea's renewable fleet has edged past its coal fleet on paper. Whether it ever out-generates coal depends on transmission lines that take a decade to build.
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Friday's Settlement Closes the Week With Oil, Metals and Clean Power Each Telling Its Own Story
The final session of the week gave traders a clear read on how energy producers, miners and renewable names are positioned heading into the weekend.
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Leaders and Laggards Define Thursday's Close Across Energy, Metals and Clean Power
Thursday's settlement is best read through its top and bottom performers, with oil, miners and renewables each telling a separate story.
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Mining Press Roundup: Newmont's Red Chris Price Tag Tests Canada's Copper Funding Case
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Mining Press Roundup: Cornish Metals Puts the South Crofty Restart to a Shareholder Vote
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DOJ Targets a Fourth Offshore Wind Permit
The Justice Department wants Avangrid's New England Wind approval sent back to Interior, the fourth offshore wind permit it has targeted in recent weeks. A Senate permitting deal may not survive the fight.
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Mining Press Roundup: Hudbay and Mitsubishi Sanction Copper World Despite Cost Inflation
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Monday's Settlement Opens the Week With a Name-by-Name Reckoning Across Energy and Metals
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Mining Press Roundup: US Copper Buyers Circle Ivanhoe's Santa Cruz as Barrick Slows Reko Diq
Ivanhoe Electric is negotiating copper sales from Santa Cruz while Barrick slows Reko Diq, and Volta Metals expands its Springer rare earths resource.
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A Spy Plane Hunts Critical Minerals
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Smelters Pay Up as Copper Mines Run Dry
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Mining Press Roundup: Vale Hands Thompson Nickel to an Exiro-Led Group as Vault Lending Nears
Vale Base Metals has handed control of its Thompson nickel complex in Manitoba to an Exiro-led group, while Project Vault prepares its first loans and gold developers in Nevada, Manitoba, Senegal and beyond report drill and study results.
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Thursday's Close Sorts the Field by Breadth, from Oil Majors to Miners to Solar
Thursday's session is read through its extremes and its breadth, with oil, metals, uranium and clean energy each telling a slightly different story.
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Mining Press Roundup: Tech Giants Eye Equity in Anglo American as Copper Slides
Anglo American says technology companies are weighing equity stakes to lock in metals for data centres, while Antofagasta's softer outlook and a chip-stock rout pushed copper miners lower.
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Trump's Greenland Mining Boom Is Years Off
Trump says 'massive' exploration is about to begin in Greenland. Greenland's own mining official says otherwise, and the permits, the ice and the paperwork agree with him. Three small-cap stocks traded on the claim anyway.
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Wednesday's Close Shifts the Focus to Uranium, Rare Earths and the Battery Supply Chain
Beyond the oil majors, the session's more telling signals came from uranium, lithium, rare earths and precious metals, with breadth and the day's extremes setting the tone.
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Mining Press Roundup: SSR Mining Buys Next Door to Marigold With a Roxmore Bid
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States Buy Metals; Mines Must Deliver
Paris is taking a near-controlling stake in a miner, Washington is building a stockpile and Brussels is fast-tracking permits. A strike at Chile's Centinela copper mine shows the limit of all three.
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