As Rio Tinto shareholders prepare to bathe in the company's biggest ever dividend this week, work to bolster future shareholder returns through asset sales will push on this week with the company set to host suitors at Queensland coal mine visits and in management discussions. The miner is deep into the
When visiting Queensland he backs mining, while in the Green-Left enclaves of inner-city Melbourne he condemns it. Doublethink, as defined by George Orwell in his classic novel 1984, is the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time, and accept both of them. Shorten publicly backed the
North Korean party officials are refusing appointments to some of the country's coal mines because of falling productivity and profits due to
November saw activists block coal mines in the Lausitz Basin in eastern Germany and Ende Gelaende is planning further protests in August at
Trafo Power Solutions says it has recently completed a dry-type transformer contract as part of a significant upgrade at a coal mine,
Polska Grupa Weglowa (PGG), the largest coal mining company in Poland and the European Union, is unprepared for a market downturn,
Giving a brief history of New Waterford and Coal Bowl, Muise equated the trust of teammates to the same trust between coal mining "brothers"
A veteran coal executive has been named the successful bidder for Ohio's Buckingham and Oxford mines owned by Westmoreland Coal
With the slow decline of the coal industry, West Virginia residents are enthusiastically taking to bee-keeping as an alternative new source of
Resources Minister Matt Canavan has accused Labor of selling out mining jobs. Picture: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas. Mr Shorten, while launching ACTU boss Ged Kearney as the party's candidate in the Victorian seat of Batman, said he had become "increasingly sceptical" about Adani. "The world coal market
BEIJING: China's worst blizzard this winter exposed a flaw in Beijing's drive to create remote coal mining hubs as it tries to streamline heavy industries and clear the air in populated regions: a lack of railroads to get the fuel to market. Heavy snow storms snarled the world's largest rail network this week,
In downtown West Frankfort, a memorial is erected to commemorate the mining history in the town. Retired coal miner Charles Baker of West Frankfort worked in the coal mines for more than 30 years. He retired in 2012. Retired coal miner Charles Baker of West Frankfort holds a photo taken of workers in
Hyderabad: A group of elected members of Sindh Assembly, politician, civil society representatives, senior journalists, and corporate executives Saturday paid a visit to Thar Coal Block II to witness mining, power plant, and community development projects. During their visit, lawmakers and others said that
Denise Gilbert at her Forbesdale residence near Gloucester, which overlooks the proposed Rocky Hill coal mine, pictured in the background. Photo: Liam Driver. The commission found economic benefits of the Rocky Hill mine with its 220-metre deep pit within a kilometre of homes were outweighed "by the
Extend the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund tax at $1.10 per ton of underground-mined coal and $0.55 per ton of surface-mined coal for 10
Both Nate and the boys' father work for the local coal mine, owned by Strickland County business mogul Amos Prater. Prater is a powerful and
President Donald Trump talked a lot about coal mining during his campaign, and he has kept talking about it since. "We have ended the war on clean coal," he declared in his State of the Union address just this week. I'd take issue with the phrase "clean coal" (more on that later), but it is definitely true that
The Interior Department has apologized after an official incorrectly blamed the Obama administration for blocking approval of two coal mines. Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt wrote a Jan. 28 opinion piece in the Grand Junction, Colo., Daily Sentinel, his hometown paper, lauding the Trump
Shops stayed shuttered as the crowd accompanied the body of the latest "martyr" of the area's abandoned coal pits, Abderrahman Zakaria, 32, to the cemetery for his funeral. The government said a ministerial delegation would soon visit the region to look into the grievances of local residents. Mass protests
BEIJING (Reuters) - China National Energy Administration on Saturday urged coal miners to resume production to keep the market supplied