Commodities

Mwana Africa’s Major Chinese Investor Is Trying To Take The Company Over On The Cheap

By Alastair Ford Contrary to popular belief, not all Chinese investors have an endless supply of US dollars. Sure, the…

Canada’s Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas Ready For The Next Step In Namibian Upstream Search

By Martin Clark Canadian junior Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas is advancing its Namibian projects nicely, after a year of…

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

By Our Man in Oz Minews. Good morning Australia, your gold stocks seem to have had a good week. Oz.…

Oil markets bracing themselves for worst case scenarios as Saudis reiterate they will not cut production

By Eithne Treanor It was just a few short weeks ago when talk of oil below US$50 a barrel seemed…

Trends In Executive Pay In The Mining Sector

By Alastair Ford Before the boom got underway in the early part of the last decade it was a truism…

Plexus Holdings wins another Brunei contract and shrugs off oil price concerns

By Our Oilbarrel  Staff Specialist wellhead provider Plexus Holdings has started 2015 with another contract win, securing a £1.5 million…

Caledonia Mining Starts 2015 As It Means To Go On: With The Payment Of A Dividend And A Quarterly Increase In Production

By Alastair Ford There’s been quite a lot of change at Caledonia Mining lately, what with a departing chairman, new…

Recent Upgrades Confirm Amara’s Yaoure Project As The Largest Gold Development Resource In West Africa

By Alastair Ford For investors battered by the sustained negativity towards junior mining, the headlines around Amara Mining’s Yaoure gold…

Gulf Keystone Petroleum hits 40,000 bpd target at Shaikan

By Amy McLellan A good start to the year for London-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum, which begins 2015 having met its…

Canada’s Calvalley Petroleum Resumes Production Operations From Yemen’s Block 9

By Martin Clark Yemen has never been the easiest of places to operate, but many companies do so profitably, and…