ULAANBAATAR -- The Mongolian state company controlling one of the world's largest coal mines plans to raise up to $3 billion in a public
The Illinois Basin appears poised to welcome a second major new underground coal mine with the decision by Blankenberger Brothers to start
Cerrejon's offer is above the 4.09% inflation for last year, but Amaya said its offer does not meet union expectations given strong coal prices in recent months. If union members vote to strike, the stoppage could begin three days after. The last strike in Cerrejon, which produces coal at its open pit mine in La
Open pit coal mines have become a major political issue in Germany, which still relies on coal for about 40 percent of its energy needs despite pledges to move to cleaner energy sources to meet climate change commitments. Some 25 percent of energy needs are met by power plants fired by high-polluting
Immerath and its church have been doomed since 2013, when Germany's constitutional court found that there was an overwhelming public interest in allowing energy firm RWE to expand its nearby Garzweiler open-cast brown coal mine. Almost all the 900 villagers have long since quit their homes, among
BOGOTA - Production and exports at Cerrejon, Colombia's largest thermal coal mine, fell in 2017 for the third straight year as heavy rainfall affected operations, the mine's owners said on Wednesday. Output reached 31.9-million tonnes in 2017, 0.3% below the previous year. Exports totalled 31.7-million
KOLKATA: The environment ministry has cleared 10 coal mining projects with a total capacity of 160 million tonnes a year and four washeries
He said Thursday that he will work with Tri-State and other utilities to help the workers and communities deal with the closing of coal mines and
The Indian Government has approved an ordinance to open up coal mining in the country to non-coal companies while lifting restrictions on the
SHILLONG: After being criticised for failing to curb illegal mining in East Jaintia Hills, the district police conducted raids in different places and
Germany's coal commission will agree on a phase-out within around 20 years, according to Armin Laschet, premier of the western coal mining
Kenny Brown, professor emeritus of history from the University of Central Oklahoma, will share how coal mining began and it's part in shaping
Kentucky had one death in 2018 from an accident at a coal mine, a record low for the state, according to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health
The Republican-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or FERC unexpectedly and unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry's plan to boost nuclear plants and slow down the closure of coal-powered plants. According to Perry, the US' power grid would become vulnerable if more
SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 8 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian coal mine Troyanovo-1 recorded an output of 13.2 million tonnes in 2017, the highest in the mine's 65-year history, its operator, state-owned Mini Maritsa Iztok company, said. The mine's 2017 production plan envisaged an output of 11.4 million tonnes of
A 19th-century village cathedral in western Germany was razed to the ground on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of coal mega mines.
After all, here we are at the start of 2018 still talking about the prospect of allowing the largest thermal coal mine in Australia to proceed, heavily subsidised by the taxpayer, opposed by over 70 per cent of people who know about the project, in a context of the thermal coal trade in structural decline and in the
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Robert Murray, the chief executive one of America's largest coal mining companies, criticized U.S. regulators on Tuesday for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for aging coal and nuclear power plants - saying the decision could lead to higher electricity
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and
In an attempt to attract investments in coal mining, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the promulgation of Mineral Laws (Amendment)