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• Market Conditions Force Coal Unit Closures in Australia, Germany

  02 Jan 2017

  Difficult market conditions have accelerated the much-hyped closures of a string of coal-fired pow... . ...Read More

• CIL allocates 30% less coal under spot e-auction in Nov

  02 Jan 2017

  State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) allocated 3.1 million tonnes (MT) of coal under spot e-auction in... . ...Read More

• Jharkhand coal mine collapse: Death toll rises to 17 in Lalmatia mishap

  02 Jan 2017

  The death toll climbed to 17 in the coal mine collapse at Lalmatia open cast coal mine of Eastern ... . ...Read More

• Outlook For Coal Unlikely To Improve

  30 Dec 2016

  The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has a lot of implications for a lot... . ...Read More

• Power sector sees 6% fall in coal supply from CIL

  30 Dec 2016

  The supply of coal to the power sector by the state–owned CIL saw a fall of 6 per cent at 33... . ...Read More

• Several trapped as Jharkhand coal mine caves-in

  30 Dec 2016

  Several people and vehicles were trapped as a coal mine caved-in in Jharkhand on Thursday night, p... . ...Read More

• Iron ore price hits three-week low

  30 Dec 2016

  The import price of 62% Fe content ore at the port of Tianjin dropped 2.8% to $77.10 per dry metri... . ...Read More

• NGT puts brakes on Welspun thermal power plant in UP

  29 Dec 2016

  A proposed 1,320-MW thermal power project of Welspun Energy in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, which rece... . ...Read More

• Cement deals dominate top five M&A deals in 2016

  29 Dec 2016

  Fuelled by a consolidation wave and rising confidence in the country’s economic growth prosp... . ...Read More

• EIA report shows shift in global coal demand

  29 Dec 2016

  Global demand for coal is shifting from the U.S., according to a new report from the Energy Inform... . ...Read More

• JITPL unit shut for coal crisis

  29 Dec 2016

  One of the two 600 mw units of independent power producer, Jindal India Thermal Power Plant Limite... . ...Read More

• Guest columnist: Into the sunset with coal

  29 Dec 2016

  A couple days ago, I asked this question of my environmental science students: “Given that W... . ...Read More

• Coal Will Walk A Ledge in 2017

  29 Dec 2016

  For coal, 2016 was the worst of times and the best of times. A year that began with plunging produ... . ...Read More

• Note ban to delay recovery in cement demand by a year

  27 Dec 2016

  Cement demand is unlikely to recover for another year due to demonetisation and increase in pric... . ...Read More

• China Industrial Profits Climb 14.5%, Led by Coal And Metals

  27 Dec 2016

  Profits at industrial firms in China accelerated in November, with raw material producers leading ... . ...Read More