Bloomberg President Donald Trump is expected to lift a moratorium on federal coal-mining leases — and it probably won’t do the industry much good until years after he’s left office. That’s because US coal companies including Peab-ody Energy Corp. won’t be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s two biggest gold miners have formed a partnership to develop a gold-copper deposit in Chile as a third producer exits the project. Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. agreed to buy 25 percent of the Cerro Casale in Chile’s Maricunga mineral belt from the world’s largest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corp., reducing the latter’s stake to 50 percent. Under terms ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to energy doesn’t scare Paolo Rocca. The billionaire steel tycoon who controls Tenaris SA, the world’s largest maker of seamless-steel pipes for the energy industry, expects the creation of American jobs at his $2.3 billion plant in Texas will allow his company to continue to import certain types of pipes into the ...