Washington - Coal miners soon will have access to a series of free, confidential health screenings through the NIOSH Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program. NIOSH's mobile testing unit will visit mining sites and public areas to screen for early detection of coal workers' pneumoconiosis. Commonly
The appeal concerned 28 hectares of agricultural land near Clay Cross, an industrial mining town in Derbyshire. The site borders the A61 road to the east, and there is major residential development to the north. The appellant sought permission for a surface coal mining operation that would yield 175,000
Yancoal created Watagan, and put three marginal NSW mines into it, in 2016 as part of a $US950 million debt raising the bottom of the coal
(1) The provision of financial products and services to thermal coal mining projects (new and expansions) and all associated mine-site activities (
David Claassen, Managing Director at Trafo Power Solutions, said: "The harsh environment of a coal mine required us to specially design a fit-for-
"Coal mining by and large has a very negative history, but Bellingham Coal Mine is really an exception to that," Mustoe says. Whereas many
After nearly a year of planning and consultation, recently, the South Coal Mine and Chinese mining truck automation major Beijing Tage
But the mine has not been producing coal at the levels it once did. It pumped
The UK has postponed making a decision on allowing the Banks Group to build a new open-cast coal mine in North East England. Northumberland County Council previously agreed last year that the group would be permitted to draw 3 million tonnes of coal through an open cast, also known as a surface
The move to allow the private sector to mine coal for commercial use will boost both production and mining efficiency. Substitution of imported non-coking coal with domestic production can save about ?,?30,000 crore of coal imports, according to a Crisil estimate. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
Long before North Dakota tapped its oil, there was lignite coal mining.
The decision directs the lower court to vacate an exemption that allowed the Forest Service to approve coal mining along the Gunnison River's
Publicly listed state coal miner PT Bukit Asam has allocated Rp 4 trillion (US$283.34 million) in capital expenditure this year, most of which will
A fall in global coal prices as a result of lower demand from main coal buyer China hit the bottom lines of mining heavyweights PT Bukit Asam
(Image courtesy of Glencore). The New South Wales' Independent Planning Commission has approved an additional 2 million tonnes of coal to
ViPioneers, a driverless transportation system startup focused on the coal mine and mining sector in China, has announced the completion of a
Coal mining continues to be one of the most hazardous professions in our society. Even today, while the number of large-scale mining
The British government has delayed a decision on whether to allow a new open pit coal mine in Northumberland, in the country's north east, without elaborating on the reasons that motivated such decision. The county's council granted permission in 2016 to developer The Banks Group to build its Highthorn
While tariffs could increase domestic demand for metallurgical coal -- which is used in the steelmaking process -- most of the market for that fuel is abroad. About 75 percent of the coking coal U.S. miners produced in 2017 was sold internationally, with Brazil, Japan and Ukraine being the biggest buyers,
Despite decades of local objection and campaigns, Pont Valley has also been home to the Bradley open-cast coal mine, owned by the Banks