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• ASIA THERMAL COAL: Newcastle spot prices jump as contract talks start in Japan

  20 Sep 2013

  A rapid rise in screen-traded Newcastle thermal coal prices overnight to $80/mt FOB got the Asian ... . ...Read More

• Large East Coast US met coal shipment to China likely mid-vol

  20 Sep 2013

  A record-volume metallurgical coal loading bound for China form Norfolk Southern's Pier 6 at t... . ...Read More

• Relationship between U.S. and International Coal Pricing

  20 Sep 2013

  The increased size of the global coal market combined with the number and diversity of supply sour... . ...Read More

• China Plan May be ‘Beginning of the End of Coal’

  20 Sep 2013

  After China’s infamous air pollution attracted much international attention last winter, Chi... . ...Read More

• An End to Powder River Basin Coal Leases? Second Auction in Two Months Fails to Seal a Mining Deal

  20 Sep 2013

  The Bureau of Land Management is having a hard time getting rid of our publicly owned coal. For th... . ...Read More

• Obama Takes on Coal With First-Ever Carbon Limits

  20 Sep 2013

  The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power ... . ...Read More

• McConnell Fires Up Case Against EPA Coal Rules

  20 Sep 2013

  The Republican war on President Obama’s “war on coal” continues. Sen. Mitch McCo... . ...Read More

• How coal can help the president help the middle class

  20 Sep 2013

  The slow recovery in the U.S. job market is leaving more Americans without work. The August jobles... . ...Read More

• NV Energy could break promise to close coal plants by 2014

  20 Sep 2013

  In the midst of a high stakes effort to pass a major piece of energy legislation earlier this year... . ...Read More

• Southeast Asia coal mine operation aided by electric submersible pumps

  20 Sep 2013

  Six new Atlas Copco WEDA pumps, with an order for an additional 15 pumps expected later this year,... . ...Read More

• Firmness in SA, Australian coal prices

  19 Sep 2013

  September 19: South African and Australian steam coal prices firmed up by about $1.00 per ton on S... . ...Read More

• Indian cement sector receives 39.46 mt coal in 2012-13

  19 Sep 2013

  September 19: The Indian cement sector had received a total of 39.46 million tons (mt) of coal dur... . ...Read More

• Indian cement sector consumes 27.25 mt of coal in 2012-13

  19 Sep 2013

  September 19: The Indian cement sector had consumed a total of 27.25 million tons (mt) of coal dur... . ...Read More

• Despatches by CIL, SCCL fall 7.94% in August

  19 Sep 2013

  September 19: The despatches of coal by domestic miners Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collier... . ...Read More

• Slowdown impacting e-auction realisations: CIL chief

  19 Sep 2013

  September 19: The economic slowdown in India has not impacted Coal India Ltd’s business in g... . ...Read More