Workers at Nutrien’s Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan have been stuck underground since Tuesday afternoon, but are safe. The 34 maintenance workers became trapped underground after the service shaft stopped operating, Will Tigley, a company spokesperso…
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All 34 workers that had been trapped underground at Nutrien’s Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan since Tuesday afternoon have been rescued. “All 34 employees have been safely brought to the surface at our Cory Potash site,” Will Tigley, a spokesperson fo…
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Germany’s KfW Group is pulling out of loans for new coal projects, joining other European development banks that have already followed orders of their governments to minimise exposure to the world’s most widely used power-station fuel. KfW will no long…
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The European Union is starting to act like China when it comes to building the batteries that will drive the next generation of cars and trucks. In the past few months, government officials led by European Commission VP Maros Sefcovic have joined with …
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Gold resumed its rally above $1 400/oz on a cocktail of positive drivers, with weak data feeding expectations for fresh easing from central banks, Treasury yields hitting a two-year low, and the US President seeking to reshape the Federal Reserve board…
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A deadly landslide and troop deployments at two giant mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlight how authorities are struggling to cope with citizens’ efforts to share in the country’s immense mineral wealth. The events at Glencore and China M…
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A Brazilian Senate committee is expected to recommend that 12 current and former executives of Vale , including CFO Luciano Siani and former CEO Fabio Schvartsman, face criminal indictments for a fatal dam disaster in January. The rapporteur of the com…
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A Brazilian Senate committee is expected to recommend that 12 current and former executives of Vale , including CFO Luciano Siani and former CEO Fabio Schvartsman, face criminal indictments for a fatal dam disaster in January. The rapporteur of the com…
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Oil had its worst reaction to an Opec meeting in more than four years, with prices sliding just after the cartel agreed to prolong production curbs as fears about the global economy mount. Futures closed down 4.8% in New York, the steepest decline sinc…
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Oil had its worst reaction to an Opec meeting in more than four years, with prices sliding just after the cartel agreed to prolong production curbs as fears about the global economy mount. Futures closed down 4.8% in New York, the steepest decline sinc…
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