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• SA coal prices firm up on speculative interest

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Spot prices of South African steam coal firmed up sharply on April 4 in the wake of specu... . ...Read More

• Shree Cement procures another cargo of 0.5 mt US steam coal

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Shree Cement Ltd has purchased yet another consignment of 0.5 million tons (mt) of US ste... . ...Read More

• Nabha Power floats NIT to procure 0.1 mt of steam coal per month

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Nabha Power Limited, a project of L&T Power Development, has floated a notice invitin... . ...Read More

• India’s imported coal stocks up 6% on first day of April

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: India’s imported coal stocks, including steam coal, coking coal and coke at seven m... . ...Read More

• SCCL has no plan to revise prices in Q1

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Even as talks about Coal India Ltd’s (CIL’s) possible price hike is doing the... . ...Read More

• SCCL’s production down 5.11% y-o-y in FY’14

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Coal production from the 49 mines of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) during 2... . ...Read More

• Adani Power commissions 4th unit of Tiroda power plant

  07 Apr 2014

  April 7: Adani Power Limited, a subsidiary of the Adani Group, commissioned the 4th unit (660MW) o... . ...Read More

• Cheaper coal, rising rupee help fire up JSW Energy

  07 Apr 2014

  The worst appears to be over for JSW group's power company — JSW Energy. International c... . ...Read More

• CIL gets single bid from MMTC for coal import contract

  07 Apr 2014

  Coal India Ltd (CIL) received a single expression of interest from MMTC for its plan to import the... . ...Read More

• CIL receives Rio Tinto, GVK Group proposals to sell coal mines

  07 Apr 2014

  State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) has received at least 60 proposals from firms, including Anglo-Au... . ...Read More

• Major Indian ports handle 17% more imported coal in 2013-14

  07 Apr 2014

  India's major state-owned ports handled 17 percent more imported coal in the fiscal year ended... . ...Read More

• China to shut down 2,000 coal mines this year

  07 Apr 2014

  China will shut down roughly 2,000 small coal mines this year, with a total capacity of 117.48 mil... . ...Read More

• Train as Long as Eight Eiffel Towers Lifts South African Coal

  07 Apr 2014

  In more than 40 years driving trains in South Africa, Jacobus Cornelius van der Merwe has never se... . ...Read More

• BHP hits resistance on coking coal prices

  07 Apr 2014

  A push by BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest resource company by market value, to have coking... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto loses court appeal on Australian coal mine expansion

  07 Apr 2014

  Rio Tinto lost a court battle on Monday to expand its Warkworth open cut coal mine in Australia, l... . ...Read More