Coal exports from Queensland set a new record in June this year, with 21.43-million tonnes of metallurgical and thermal coal exported during the month, the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) revealed on Thursday.
QRC CEO Ian Macfarlane said the 11% in…
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Coal India Limited (CIL) has recorded almost flat growth in production during April to June, putting under a cloud the government’s ambitious target for the miner to achieve an 8.5% growth for the current financial year. The State-run miner produced 13…
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Aim- and JSE-listed Kibo Energy has decided to convert its application for a special mining licence (SML) for the Mbeya coal-to-power project (MCPP), in Tanzania, to seven mining licences. It said on Tuesday that the decision had been taken in the inte…
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US coal miner Arch Coal’s Black Thunder mine has been awarded the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reclamation award, an accolade that president and COO Paul Lang said on Tuesday was a “great honour for the men and women at the mine”.
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Christopher Cline, the billionaire coal tycoon best known for reviving Illinois’s mining industry and making a fortune doing it, died in a helicopter crash Thursday.
Cline died in an accident off the Bahamas along with his daughter, Kameron Cline, and…
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Christopher Cline, the billionaire coal tycoon best known for reviving Illinois’s mining industry and making a fortune doing it, died in a helicopter crash Thursday. Cline died in an accident off the coast of the Bahamas that also killed six other peop…
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US coal major Peabody Energy has started the re-entry of the North Goonyella mine, in Queensland.
The miner this week told shareholders that the re-entry activities, which are being done in consultation with the Queensland Mine Inspectorate, were part…
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JSE-listed minerals and construction materials group Afrimat has decided not to pursue an acquisition of ASX-listed midtier coal mining company Universal Coal. In April, Afrimat made a nonbinding indicative offer to buy the entire issued share capital …
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Germany’s KfW Group is pulling out of loans for new coal projects, joining other European development banks that have already followed orders of their governments to minimise exposure to the world’s most widely used power-station fuel. KfW will no long…
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Coal miner Stanmore Coal on Wednesday announced that it would defer the development of its Isaac Plains underground project, in Queensland.
The miner told shareholders that while a bankable feasibility study on the underground operation had confirmed…
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