A new poll shows opposition to the development of the Adani coal mine in Queensland is growing. According to the Brisbane Times, a ReachTEL poll of 3,312 people this month found 65.1 per cent of Australians opposed or strongly opposed the coal mine. That's a 13.2 per cent rise, up from 51.9 per cent
PAKISTAN's enormous mineral wealth has long lain untapped. Since a 1992 geological survey spotted one of the world's largest coal reserves in Thar, a scrubby desert in the southern province of Sindh, prospectors have hardly dug up a lump. Among those to flounder is a national hero. Samar
CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) - State-owned power utility Eskom's demand for about 750-million tonnes of coal between now and about 2040, has seen the utility identify opportunities arising for emerging coal miners in respect of two of its strategic objectives - the security of supply and logistics
In a landmark decision that will reverberate around Australia and beyond, a court has ruled that a controversial open cast coal mine in the
Judge rejects Rocky Hill mine near Gloucester, NSW, because of its impact
The accident happened Tuesday, February 6 at about 3:55 a.m. at the Wolf Run Mining LLC, Sentinel Mine, according to Smith. Leonard Griffith, 52, of Valley Bend, died after he was struck by a coal rib roll that he was working on. Griffith was an electrician at the mine. Smith said the Office of Miners' Health,
Officials at an undersea Cape Breton coal mine broke a provincial regulation by not reporting a massive roof cave-in until government
HALIFAX - Officials at an undersea Cape Breton coal mine broke a provincial regulation by not reporting a massive roof cave-in until
The first deep coal mine in Britain for 30 years is being proposed in a planning application due to be heard in Kendal on 7 March 2018. Woodhouse Colliery is proposed for Whitehaven, which is a former mining community with a lot of identity and even nostalgia caught up in the industry. It is also an area
Shamus MacDougall, left, 25, of Donkin, a training miner operator at Donkin mine, chats with Wyatt Scheller, 25, of Lingan, a roof bolt operator, while preparing to get in the personnel carrier with the rest of their crew for transport into the mine, about a 3.5-km under the ocean. The mine celebrated the first
The transaction would combine their coal mining operations in the Southern Powder River Basin, located in northeastern Wyoming. The
On top of stepping back from advising companies that get most of their revenue from coal extraction, JPMorgan said it will put restrictions on
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 24 (Reuters) - South African petrochemicals group Sasol is keeping its coal mining business, Chief Executive
Meghalaya Assembly Elections 2018: Coal mining ban big issue. In the poll-bound Meghalaya,
Australian indexes were in the green, though shares of Australian coal miners mostly sold off on Friday. New Hope Corporation dropped 3.6%,
Middelburg - Mineworkers at the Gupta-owned Optimum Coal Mine in Mpumalanga downed tools on Wednesday over the uncertainty of their jobs and the future of the mine. A large group of striking mineworkers gathered at the main gate of the mine early on Wednesday morning. Many of them were still
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON:GLEN), one of the world's top coal exporters, has yielded to investor pressure to embrace a
Frankfurt am Main (AFP). Activists occupied Germany's newest power plant on Sunday to protest against a law passed last week to end coal
By Fransiska Nangoy and Wilda Asmarini. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Miners have welcomed proposed changes to Indonesian mining rules under a new law aimed
Indonesia is a top exporter of thermal coal, tin and nickel products, but overall mining investment dropped from 79 trillion rupiah ($5.8 billion) in