Mining
Chile top court turns down Barrick Gold’s appeal in Pascua-Lama fine
02 Jan 2015
Chile’s environment regulator will instead reevaluate the fines it imposed on the Pascua-Lama project and perhaps raise it from $16 million to $130-$300 million while Barric Gold reworks the project
Insurance FDI cap takes ordinance route, coal auction to follow
24 Dec 2014
The Insurance Bill, which has been pending since 2008 in the Rajya Sabha, seeks to increase the composite foreign investment limit in insurance companies to 49 per cent from current 26 per cent
Panel moots coal linkages for power plants
22 Dec 2014
Coalgate: Court tells CBI to further grill Manmohan Singh, others
16 Dec 2014
Refusing to accept CBI’s closure report, a special CBI court in Delhi today ordered it to record the statements of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who held charge of the coal ministry in 2005 in the coal block misallocation case
Australian regulator blocks Yancoal’s $2.3 bn equity issue
15 Dec 2014
The Australian takeovers regulator has stopped Yancoal from raising up to $2.3 billion in securities, after minority shareholders objected, fearing this to be a backdoor strategy by China's Yanzhou Coal to gain near complete control of the loss-making coal mining firm
