July 26, 2019 DSA, union may bid for mines once owned by Guptas, Glencore The venture would be between Orchid Mining, a unit of DSA, and Nehawu Investment Holdings.
July 25, 2019 Formalizing status of miners could add $1.3 billion annually to Colombia’s GDP Government formalization efforts are meant to expand labor protections, safeguard the environment and collect more taxes and royalties from subsistence miners.
July 24, 2019 US coal miners lobby Congress to fund Black Lung Trust Fund Black lung disease is an epidemic killing thousands of coal miners.
July 24, 2019 Caterpillar pours cold water on manufacturing, energy sector hopes Disappointing earnings were driven mainly by its construction division.
July 23, 2019 BHP earmarks $400 million to reduce emissions from its mines, products The world’s No. 1 miner will spend that sum over the next five years, while linking executive pay more closely to environmental targets.
July 19, 2019 Blackhawk files Chapter 11, joins list of bankrupt coal miners Blackhawk's debt increased from $16 million to over $1 billion in a year.
July 19, 2019 Indian utilities’ coal imports in H119 rise over 53% from year ago Thermal coal imports rose at the fastest pace in four years in 2018, after two straight years of decline.
July 18, 2019 Anglo American’s diamond unit takes sparkle away from results Output from its De Beers unit dropped 14% amid weaker demand and lower prices.
July 17, 2019 South32 quarterly coking coal output up 17.4% The output beat a UBS estimate of 1.2 million tonnes.
July 17, 2019 BHP aims to cut thermal coal output for next year, raise quality BHP said its New South Wales Energy coal production would fall as much as 18% to between 15-17 million tonnes next year.
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