U.S. exports of goods and services to Chinain 2014 were $167 billion, only about 1% of U.S. GDP. ButU.S. investment in mining structures(explorations, shafts, and wells) amounted to $146B at an annual rate in 2014:Q4. By the second quarter of this year that number was down to $...
The invalidation ofReko Diqlicense to Tethyan, joint venture of Canada's Barrick and Chile's Antofagasta, has turned away Pakistan'ssingle largest foreign investment dealto date. The deposit in Balochistan was expected to produce about 200,000 tons of copper and 250,000 ounces of gold annually....
Not everybody agrees that shale gas is a guarantor of economic prosperity or energy independence. Canadian geologistJ. David Hughes of the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, California, argued that shale gas wells are notoriously short-lived, declining in gas production by as much as 85 percen...