January 30, 2012

Flood traps dozens in China mine

A flood left dozens of workers trapped in a coal mine in northern China's Inner Mongolia region, the mine's owner said. The number of people trapped in the mine, which…

January 30, 2012

CIDA supports Canadian mining: the pros & cons of a rising debate

Soon after the fall of the Berlin wall, we descended on Wismut, East Germany with proposals to help them cleanup the old uranium mines, mills, and tailings impoundments that the…

January 30, 2012

Siemens enters Africa with first wind orders

The company will supply a total of 44 wind turbines for two wind power plants in Morocco to the customer Nareva Holding.

January 30, 2012

Tournigan’s Prefeasibility Study Indicates Kuriskova Could be Among World’s Lowest Cost Uranium Producers

Tournigan Energy Ltd. (TVC: TSX-V; TGP: Frankfurt) has received a Preliminary Feasibility Study (“PFS”) on its flagship Kuriskova high-grade uranium deposit located in Slovakia from its independent consultant, Tetra Tech,…

January 30, 2012

Vale makes promises to resettled Mozambicans

Brazilian mining giant Vale has promised to solve within six months all the problems faced by households resettled from the area where Vale is now mining coal in Moatize district,…

January 30, 2012

Canada’s Sunshine Oilsands heads for HK IPO

Sunshine Oilsands, a Canadian tar sands company backed by Chinese state-owned enterprises, has shunned Toronto and will next month launch an initial public offering in Hong Kong that could raise…

January 30, 2012

Industrea renews its major mining services contracts, with Baralaba Coal the latest

Completing the suite of renewals of its major mining services contracts, Industrea has signed a continuation of the whole of mine contract with Cockatoo Coal subsidiary Baralaba Coal for its…

January 29, 2012

BC coal mine expansion approved

The BC government has allowed an expansion to the Quinsam Coal Mine on Vancouver Island.

January 29, 2012

Coal piece from Titanic auctioned

A tiny piece of coal salvaged from the Titanic has sold at an auction for 50 pounds.

January 29, 2012

6 More Coal Plants To Close

FirstEnergy says it will retire six older coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland by Sept. 1 because of tighter federal rules on emissions.