January 17, 2018 Indonesia completes contract amendments with coal miners Indonesia has now amended contracts of all 68 coal mining companies, marking victory for the government after earlier miner resistance to adopt to new terms.
January 17, 2018 Rio Tinto says SEC fraud case should be dismissed The SEC had accused Rio Tinto, Albanese and Elliott of concealing the deteriorating value of assets at Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique.
January 15, 2018 China’s state-owned coal firms target 12.65m tonnes of capacity cuts China's central government-owned enterprises will target coal capacity cuts of 12.65m tonnes in 2018, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
January 12, 2018 World seaborne coal trade rose 1.5 pct in 2017 – German importers This rise happened due to a recovery in output in producer countries such as the United States, Russia and China and an accompanying rise in export activity.
January 11, 2018 Mining profits are super-charged and BlackRock wants to get paid “A lot of investors were really badly burned, ourselves included.”
January 10, 2018 Reform overdue to drive growth and protect Australia from future downturn Minerals Council of Australia’s pre-Budget submission warns that every year Budget repair is delayed puts Australia closer to the risk of an economic shock.
January 9, 2018 Workers at Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine say they could strike over wages Unless disagreements at negotiations for wages and benefits are resolved by Jan. 19
January 8, 2018 Trump administration’s plan to boost coal, nuclear power rejected For the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Rick Perry’s arguments were unfounded.
January 7, 2018 Coal mine to re-open in Canada, another closes in US Former Grand Cache Coal mine to re-start out of bankruptcy; 4 West Mine in Pennsylvania will be shuttered.
January 7, 2018 Coal dwarfs battery metals in mining deals despite war on pollution Coal and iron ore dominated mining takeovers in 2017, Thomson Reuters data shows, with buyers favoring the heavily polluting devil they know over the uncertainties of a battery-powered future.
Lithium swings from glut to scarcity on Asia demand, Traxys says Lithium is emerging from a period of oversupply after record-high prices spurred supply growth at a time of disappointing demand. January 16, 2026 | 01:05 pm
