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• Another Nation Goes Coal Critical

  19 Feb 2014

  The thermal coal story in Asia just keeps looking better. With another data point last week sugges... . ...Read More

• Coal ash lines Dan River 70 miles from Eden spill site

  19 Feb 2014

  Federal officials said Tuesday that toxic coal ash has coated the bottom of a North Carolina river... . ...Read More

• German Village Resists Plans to Strip It Away for the Coal Underneath

  19 Feb 2014

  A grove of apple saplings grows on the lee side of Ulrich Schulz’s barn. He did not plant th... . ...Read More

• Coal mine blast kills seven in Ukraine

  19 Feb 2014

  Seven miners were killed and nine others injured when a methane blast ripped through a coal mine i... . ...Read More

• SA coal prices rise marginally

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: Spot coal prices in the international markets showed mixed trends with South African ... . ...Read More

• Coal despatches by CIL, SCCL up 5.26% in Jan m-o-m

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: Despatches of coal by domestic miners Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collieries C... . ...Read More

• Mineral production up 7.4% in December

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: The index of mineral production of the mining and quarrying sector was up 7.4% in Dec... . ...Read More

• Coal ministry on de-allocation spree

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: The Ministry of Coal, acting on the recommendation of the Inter-Ministerial Group, ha... . ...Read More

• India, ADB sign $130-m loan facility for rail routes

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: The Government of India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $130-million l... . ...Read More

• Essar Energy targets peak production of CBM

  18 Feb 2014

  February 18: Essar Energy plc targets a peak production of 3 million standard cubic meter per day ... . ...Read More

• Govt cancels coal blocks of 18 companies

  18 Feb 2014

  Eight of these blocks are part of the 61 captive coal acreages allocated to private companies post... . ...Read More

• Government forms panel to recommend framework for PPP model for coal

  18 Feb 2014

  A panel has been set up to recommend the framework for public private partnership (PPP) model for ... . ...Read More

• Coal production seen at 554mt; Coal India slips

  18 Feb 2014

  In the Interim Budget, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that India’s coal production seen... . ...Read More

• Indian panel rejects assured coal supplies for reject power plants

  18 Feb 2014

  An inter-Ministerial committee of the Indian government has turned down a proposal that would see ... . ...Read More

• The epic coking coal crash in Australia

  18 Feb 2014

  I haven’t caught up coking coal for a while but it’s worth reminding ourselves of what... . ...Read More