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• HSBC says $20bn market value of coal assets at risk

  20 Jan 2014

  A new report from leading investment bank HSBC says the market value of the coal assets owned by A... . ...Read More

• Wesfarmers Bargain Buy Highlights Coal’s Demise

  20 Jan 2014

  For a gauge of just how far prices of Australian coal assets have fallen in the past few years loo... . ...Read More

• Coal exports to China defy doomsayers

  20 Jan 2014

  New figures supplies by Coal Services show exports from NSW to China continuing to rapidly increas... . ...Read More

• DOE Funds Carbon Capture Project Amid Fight Over Future of Coal

  20 Jan 2014

  On January 16, 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy approved $1 billion in funding for a carbon capt... . ...Read More

• Stung by court posers, Coal Ministry slaps show-cause on 61 private firms

  17 Jan 2014

  The Coal Ministry has warned 61 private firms including Jindal Steel and Power, Tata Steel, Arcelo... . ...Read More

• Government names companies selected by it for coal blocks

  17 Jan 2014

  In the ongoing hearing on Thursday before the Supreme Court in the coal block allocation controver... . ...Read More

• Coal India could have helped slash production cost by 12%: Power Companies

  17 Jan 2014

  Coal India Ltd could have helped power companies save their production cost by 12%, or 35 paise a ... . ...Read More

• Power and steel industries slam Centre on cancellation of coal block allocations

  17 Jan 2014

  The power and steel manufacturers' associations on Thursday trashed the Centre's claim bef... . ...Read More

• Coal India is no villain

  17 Jan 2014

  S. Narsing Rao, the Chairman of the world’s largest coal producing company Coal India Limite... . ...Read More

• MoEF gets deadline to give clearance to coal blocks

  17 Jan 2014

  In an move to speed up clearances for coal blocks, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) ... . ...Read More

• CBI refuses to share documents with ex-coal secy Parakh

  17 Jan 2014

  In its FIR, the agency had alleged that Parakh abused his official position and reversed his decis... . ...Read More

• China coal output seen up 2.7 per cent in 2014: Coal group

  17 Jan 2014

  Chinese coal production is expected to grow 2.7 percent this year to around 3.8 billion tonnes, wi... . ...Read More

• Japan utilities December coal use rises 15% y-o-y

  17 Jan 2014

  Japan's regional power monopolies consumed 15 percent more thermal coal in December than a yea... . ...Read More

• US weekly coal carloads down 7.4% from last year: AAR

  17 Jan 2014

  The number of coal carloads originated by US railroads totaled 103,695 for the week ending January... . ...Read More

• SouthGobi 2013 coal output more than doubles as mine restarts

  17 Jan 2014

  SouthGobi Resources Ltd, a coal producer in Mongolia controlled by a Rio Tinto Group unit, more th... . ...Read More