Bulgaria: Competition watchdog raids more oil firms in fuel inquiry
Bulgaria’s competition regulator said on Tuesday it had raided the offices of fuel retailers Petrol and Nis Petrol, which is controlled by Russia’s Gazprom Neft,...
Category : Mining News
Eldorado Gold Greece mining operations in Panama papers
In Skouries there would be only 0.81 grams of gold per ton of ore, compared to an average of 1.02 in the currently-producing gold mines....
TEPAV publishes report on labor policies in Turkey’s coal mining sector
Turkey should adopt a national policy aiming to improve the conditions of workers in the coal mining sector, a report published by the Economic Policy...
PPF Investments supports EPH acquisition of Vattenfall coal business
A new owner for the lignite operations The buyer consists of a consortium of two companies. Czech EPH is an established European energy group, based...
Poland in Court over Environment Impact Assessment of drilling
Environmental Impact Assessment: Commission refers POLAND to the Court of Justice of the EU over inadequate assessment of exploratory mining drillings The European Commission is...
Gazprom’s monopoly comes to an end
World energy market experts proclaimed last week the beginning of the end of Gazprom’s monopoly in the European gas market. The reason for such an...
Petropavlovsk: $20m Russian gold assets sales
Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk is selling its interests in 2 non-core gold exploration companies for $US20M. The deal includes the Ilyinskoye company, which holds the...
ING, Rabobank urged to come clean over investments in Russian coal
Dutch banks ING and Rabobank have invested millions of euros in a Russian coal company, despite portraying their activities as ‘sustainable’, according to a new...
Beowulf Mining remains confident for exploitation concession for its Sweden Kallak North project
Plans for the company’s Kallak magnetite iron ore project in northern Sweden have been thrown into disarray by a judgement in February of the Supreme...
Closure of Finland nickel mining company Talvivaara Terrafame?
In recent years Talvivaara has become a byword for environmental negligence, following a series of toxic leaks into local waterways which constituted some of the...
