June 18, 2012 Prophecy Coal to purchase Tethys Mining exploration licenses Drill results of the agreed upon regions estimated to at 540 million tonnnes of thermal coal.
June 18, 2012 L&L Energy buys majority stake in Chinese coal mine US-based L&L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN), a company with five-year track record of profitable coal operations in China, announced it has entered into an MOU to acquire the Lashu Mine…
June 18, 2012 Australia sets conditions to Rinehart’s $6.4 billion coal mine project Australian environment minister, Tony Burke, has told GVK and #4 mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to improve four areas of their $6.4 billion Alpha Coal project if they want to gain…
June 18, 2012 Alpha cut accident rates at coal mines formerly owned by Massey Energy: prosecutors Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) has drastically cut its accident and injury rates in the six months since a landmark $210 million settlement, which spared the company criminal charges over…
June 17, 2012 Australia: Mine, all mine By having too much of a good thing, the argument goes, Australia, or the “quarry in China’s backyard”, has become too dependent on commodity-led growth. That has made it lazy…
June 17, 2012 Cliffs slashes thermal coal sales, production volume expectations at W.Va. mine Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. said June 15 that it is reducing its full-year 2012 thermal coal sales and production volume expectations to approximately 800,000 tons from 1.1 million tons…
June 17, 2012 Why I’m buying this global mining giant Diversified Australian resources company BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has its hands in nearly every commodity that can be pulled out of the ground.
June 17, 2012 Australian clean coal institute ‘squandered’ $300 million, has ‘precious little’ to show The since departed head of the institute which has staff of 78 was paid in excess of $500,000 per year and the organization racked up more than $54 million in…
June 16, 2012 Weak US coal market leaving holes in open-hopper barge capacity for 2012 The open-hopper barge fleet, at times booked a year in advance during stronger coal markets, still has capacity in 2012, Ingram Barge Co. Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer…
June 16, 2012 Drummond claims report of Colombian coal deal with Aditya Birla is false Alabama-based coal producer Drummond Co. Inc. said a news report that the company might sell a portion of its Colombian operations to Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group "has no foundation…
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