December 18, 2011

Shenhua invests $21b to produce alumina from coal ash

China Shenhua Group, the country's largest coal producer, on Sunday kicked off construction on a project capable of producing alumina from coal ash, a waste byproduct of thermal power generation.

December 18, 2011

Russian billionaire to build USD 1 billion railroad to coal field

Bloomberg reported that Billionaire Mr Ziyavudin Magomedov Summa Group won the right to build a RUB 44.3 billion section of a railroad to coal fields in East Siberia near deposits…

December 18, 2011

States and tribes receive half a billion to clean up abandoned coal mines

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on Thursday, together with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, announced $485 million is being given to states and tribes to eliminate…

December 17, 2011

Jobs outlook strong in Australian mining sector – survey

Job seekers in the Australian mining and construction industry were likely to benefit from a favourable hiring climate in the first quarter of 2012, said recruitment solutions provider Manpower.

December 16, 2011

Facebook commits to clean energy future

The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its data centers with…

December 16, 2011

Adani Enterprises to invest $ 4bn to develop coal mines

Adani Enterprises is looking to invest USD 4 billion to develop coal mines and also eying possible listing on London exchanges, reports The Economic Times.

December 16, 2011

Canada ranks 5th in the world for coal reserves

Canada is sitting on nearly 4% of the world's coal resources, with at least 80 billion tonnes of exploitable coal and 8 billion tonnes classified as commercially feasible under today's…

December 15, 2011

Australian exploration spending skyrocketing

Exploration for coal and iron ore has hit record highs, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

December 15, 2011

Life at the coal face: Who are the UK’s 21st Century miners?

"You get filthy and my nails have never been any good but I absolutely love being a miner." Stuart Foweather started at Cadeby Colliery in Doncaster in 1978 as a…

December 15, 2011

Ex-journalist, coal lobbyist Tom Duncan dies

Tom Duncan, a longtime newspaper and television correspondent who went on to lobby for Kentucky’s coal industry for more than a decade, died late Tuesday at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation in…