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• Asia thermal coal: Freight, currency issues impede CFR China cargo deals

  25 Mar 2014

  Seaborne prices at China's southern ports searched for direction in thin Asia trade Monday as ... . ...Read More

• Ex-Nobel trader Banga ventures into coal trading

  25 Mar 2014

  Thermal coal prices have almost reached a low point after declining for three straight years, acco... . ...Read More

• Combined coal stocks at key Bohai sea ports down 7% on week

  25 Mar 2014

  Coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports totaled 17.785 million mt on Sunday, down 1.... . ...Read More

• $1b Wallarah coal plan could be declared invalid over Darkinjung Aboriginal land ownership row

  25 Mar 2014

  Plans for a $1billion coal mine at Wallarah could be derailed after warnings were ignored that the... . ...Read More

• New Hope Profit Plunges 67% on Weak Coal Prices

  25 Mar 2014

  New Hope Corp.'s (NHC.AU) profit slumped in its fiscal first half as sharply lower coal prices... . ...Read More

• SouthGobi Seeks Funding to Avoid Default After Coal Slump

  25 Mar 2014

    SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (SGQ), a producer of metallurgical coal in Mongolia, is seeking ... . ...Read More

• Netherlands to stop funding overseas coal power plants

  25 Mar 2014

    The Netherlands will no longer provide money to new coal projects overseas, announced the... . ...Read More

• Coal leaves deep, wide wake in West Virginia

  25 Mar 2014

  Trucks laden high with coal lurch and career into every bend as they barrel down WV Route 3, slipp... . ...Read More

• The Losing Economics of Investing in Aging Coal Plants

  25 Mar 2014

  Across the United States, economics are increasingly favoring investment in renewable energy at th... . ...Read More

• Carbon Tax Freeze to Extend U.K. Coal Profits, New Energy Says

  25 Mar 2014

  U.K. coal-fed power stations will gain an extra year of profitability after the government froze a... . ...Read More

• ‘War on Coal’ is Not the Real Reason Your Utility Rates Will Go Up

  25 Mar 2014

  With new EPA regulations for coal-fired power plants looming ahead, the coal and utilities industr... . ...Read More

• Indonesian coal prices turn slightly soft in dull trend

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: Prices of Indonesian steam coal remained slightly soft on March 21 amidst low interest f... . ...Read More

• Consumer price index for agri, rural labours unchanged for February

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The All-India Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers for agricultural and rural labourers (b... . ...Read More

• Govt corrects minor error in competitive bidding rules notification

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The government has corrected a minor typographical error in its earlier notification on ... . ...Read More

• Pre-bid meet for competitive bidding extended to April 4

  24 Mar 2014

  March 24: The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd (CMPDI) has extended the pre-bid conf... . ...Read More