If you cannot beat them, try to join them… …in order to help the poor nations achieve desperately needed energy supply. Yes, from environmentally harmful coal. [Read more...]

  The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) agency reports in September 2015 that the number of new coal mines opening each year dropped to its lowest point in at [Read more...]

“WHAT IF: What if the world is shifting from an “investment phase” of a 30-year commodity cycle to an “exploitation phase?”  How does this professional [Read more...]

Part of a new strategic plan for Vale? Reports are that Vale has sold its Integra coal mine in Australia to Glencore and Bloomfield. The Integra coal mine complex is located [Read more...]

The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a basket of 22 raw materials including crude and gold is trading at a 2002 low. It has slumped 14 percent this year. To read the entire [Read more...]

The dysfunctional issues surrounding the government managed electric utility threatens the so called National Development Plan. Here is the latest business news from multiple [Read more...]

As a Middle Ages historian in college, I can tell you that the Renaissance period had its ups and downs. The modern North American so called Renaissance Rail Freight Period [Read more...]

An important Coal background report from Bloomberg, Aug 1, 2015 The Obama administration has reduce the differences among state goals in a landmark climate change rule, [Read more...]

From Bloomberg, Jul 31, 2015 The destructive force of a collapse in world coal prices has been underscored by the sale of a mine valued at A$860 million ($631 million) three [Read more...]

What has taken senior iron ore – steel industry leadership so long to adjust their strategic plans? What are rail and port companies that provide logistics services to [Read more...]