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Tussle over $5 billion wages a new risk to India coal supply

Workers are seeking a 47% increase in wages, while Coal India has offered a 3% raise.

Bloomberg News | July 5, 2022 | 10:17 am

South Africa’s 400 abandoned coal mines pose deadly, toxic risk

The sites threaten to pollute rivers and land by leaching…

Bloomberg News | July 5, 2022 | 7:40 am

Europe snaps up coal from abroad to fill gap left by Russia

Helping to fill the gap is more coal from the…

Bloomberg News | July 5, 2022 | 7:33 am

Earth’s mineral diversity 75% greater than previously thought

Two papers published in American Mineralogist and sponsored in part…

Staff Writer | July 5, 2022 | 6:06 am

Australia sees commodities boom lifting exports to fresh record

Australia’s minerals exports are set to reach unseen heights for…

Bloomberg News | July 3, 2022 | 9:46 am

Glencore unit pleads guilty to bribery in Africa

Glencore Energy admitted to paying more than $28 million in bribes to secure preferential access to oil in five countries.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 21, 2022 | 3:48 am

Surging energy prices force Japanese steel giant to revisit coal

Nippon Steel currently has minority stakes in six coking coal assets, mostly in Australia.

Bloomberg News | June 20, 2022 | 2:47 pm

Austria returns to coal era in hedge against Russian power play

State-controlled Verbund, Austria’s biggest utility and most valuable company, was ordered late Sunday to prepare its mothballed Mellach coal-fired station for operation.

Bloomberg News | June 20, 2022 | 8:32 am

Germany is taking steps to bolster gas supplies, Habeck says

The German government is preparing to fire up more coal plants to keep the use of gas at a minimum.

Bloomberg News | June 19, 2022 | 2:07 pm

New Wyoming facility to boost extraction of REEs from coal

The Wyoming Innovation Center is a place for companies and researchers to work on developing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, and carbon fibre, and extract rare earths from coal and coal byproducts.

Staff Writer | June 19, 2022 | 1:37 pm

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Tussle over $5 billion wages a new risk to India coal supply

South Africa’s 400 abandoned coal mines pose deadly, toxic risk

Europe snaps up coal from abroad to fill gap left by Russia

Earth’s mineral diversity 75% greater than previously thought

Australia sees commodities boom lifting exports to fresh record

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