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...Exports of gas, lithium and other minerals offer Argentina a “phenomenal growth opportunity” and will significantly boost the heavily indebted South American nation’s ability to repay creditors from 2025...
...Billionaire Gina Rinehart is teaming up with Chile’s SQM in a $1.1bn deal for Azure Minerals amid a scramble for control of Australia’s lithium resources....
...Extraordinary combinations of salt, minerals, and evaporation give it the appearance of melted ice cream, strains of black, blue, red, and white interlocking across its weird surface....
...The main culprit was not environmentalism, but the shale revolution, which provided an abundance of cheaper, cleaner natural gas, replacing coal as a fuel in power plants; more recently plummeting costs...
...It prospered on trade out of Metsovo along the Silk Road to Thessaly, Constantinople, the Black Sea and beyond....
...What would Apollo look like without Leon Black?...
...(Twitter) Political foul NBA teams and owners have publicly aligned themselves with social justice and anti-police brutality movements including Black Lives Matter....
...While it is more than a year since Mr Ross left Pira, he remains intimately involved in the market with his own hedge fund Black Gold Investors LLC, where his son is the top trader....
...Khama is a policy adviser on the mineral, oil and gas industries at the World Bank and Sangudi is a managing director for The Carlyle Group....
...Commodity dealing at times seems to attract frustrated athletes, perhaps drawn by the often black-and-white “I win, you lose” nature of trading....
...“Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists [of Black Lives Matter and the anti-fascist movement],” Mr Duke wrote....
...Laws governing UK mineral rights provide little incentive for local communities to embrace fracking....
...The economy continues to be bruised by sluggish demand from China for its principal mineral exports. Agricultural output has been hit hard by a punishing drought....
...Its assets span shale gas explorers, soda ash producers, motorways and energy distributors....
...Peñoles is just capitalising on [previous] high minerals prices.”...
...So we have seen higher production from oilfields that are more costly to develop or operate, such as in the arctic, deep offshore, heavy oils in Canada and Venezuela, and shale oil deposits in the US,” he...
...Even in New York, landowners hold mineral rights. This may explain why the landlord of the apartment where this columnist roosts is digging in the cellar....
...Should shale explorers start prospecting the Home Counties for black gold, there will be public outrage at the disruption to rural tranquillity and potential for environmental desecration....
...Shell says that its North American onshore gas portfolio now includes about 3.5m acres of mineral rights, with the potential to yield 40tn cubic feet of gas – the energy equivalent of nearly 7bn barrels...
...In the 1850s, a few miles from what would later become the Grangemouth refinery, James Paraffin Young figured out how to extract mineral oil from local shale rock....
...In the last fiscal year to March 2014, the energy-poor nation spent Y28.4tn ($236bn) on mineral fuels, of which more than 90 per cent was linked to oil....
...In luring such European energy giants into Black Sea offshore exploration and Ukraine’s broader energy equation, Yanukovich demonstrates that he is not turning his back on Europe altogether....
...All of them have talked about diversifying away from their core energy and minerals units. But if they do not also talk up earnings expectations, it is hard to see prices moving higher....
...Lord Ponsonby is chairman of Yakut Energy Limited, a private equity investor in Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha LLC (TAAS)....
...dealmaking is more active, according to Mr Black....
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