April 24, 2024

BHP targets Anglo American in bid valued at $39 billion

Takeover would represent the first mega deal among the world’s biggest diversified miners in over a decade. 

April 24, 2024

Pressure on gas and LNG prices to help switch from coal, says JP Morgan

The sharp growth in gas supply and the drop in prices could lead to a rapid conversion from coal to gas, the bank said.

April 24, 2024

China coal prices have bottomed, will surpass 2023 highs, industry group says

Demand for the fuel has been hit by a slowdown in the cement industry.

April 23, 2024

China loses appetite for Russian coal as import costs rise

Russian exports plunged 22% in the first quarter after Beijing imposed a tax regime that favors some of Russia’s rivals.

April 23, 2024

Coal trains also carry respiratory diseases to communities on their way – study

Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines.

April 23, 2024

China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals

Norwegian risk assessment firm DNV said China's coal consumption will see a "minor uptick" in the next two years.

April 18, 2024

Whitehaven Q3 ROM coal output up over 2%; Blackwater stake sell underway

Run-of-mine coal production for the three months ended March 31 was 4.4 million tonnes, compared with 4.3 Mt a year earlier.

April 18, 2024

US states, tribes receive $124.8 million for land reclamation work

The grants are funded, in part, by a fee collected on all coal produced in the United States.

April 17, 2024

BHP to decide on future of nickel business by August, trims met coal estimates

The world's largest listed miner said iron ore production from mines it operates in Western Australia on a 100% basis was 68.1 million tonnes during the three months ended March…

April 17, 2024

MSHA issues final rule to better protect miners from silica dust exposure

The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air for a full-shift exposure.