Despite a drop in coal exports off the Mississippi River in 2013, several New Orleans-area terminals say they are increasing capacity as they eye improved markets in the long-term. Foresight Energy's Convent Marine Terminal in Convent, ...
Tags: Coal Terminals, Coal Exports
US coal production totaled about 17.9 million st in the week that ended February 8, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday. This production estimate is 4.5% lower than the previous week's estimate and 6.7% below output in the ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
Colombian coal exports in 2013 dropped 1% on the year to 76.652 million mt, according to data late Friday from the country's statistics agency DANE. Colombia's 2013 export sales in 2013 fell 14% on the year to $6.687 billion FOB, DANE ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Mineral
A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that more can be done to reduce methane ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Alcoa has announced it will permanently close its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills in Australia. The smelter and an adjacent rolling mill are located in Geelong, Victoria. The second mill and a recycling facility are ...
Tags: aluminium, Metallurgy, Mineral
U.S. rail intermodal traffic rose 0.6% in the week ended Feb. 8 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Railroads moved 246,114 intermodal trailers and containers that week, AAR said Feb. 13 ...
Tags: Transportation, lgoistics
Coal inventories at China's four main northern ports continued to increase as demand from downstream buyers weakened due to the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, industry sources said. Coal stockpiles held at Qinhuangdao Port in Hebei ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The fourth-largest energy consumer in the world is starting to make some noise on the renewables front.India,with its growing population and GDP,has announced plans to build a massive 4-gigawatt solar photovoltaic plant near Sambhar ...
Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that in the fourth quarter of 2013 its crude steel output decreased by nine percent to one million mt, while its pig iron output also declined by nine percent to ...
Tags: Russian mining, steel, Mineral
In developed country biomass briquette energy is mostly used because it is eco-friendly. In last decade, we can say that industrial growth is increasing day by day. And in industries some type of chemical process takes place which cause ...
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US over-the-counter thermal coal prices closed little changed on Tuesday, with only a handful of trades seen across the Central Appalachian and Powder River Basin 8,800-Btu/lb coal markets. In the East, CAPP rail (CSX) coal prices edged 5 ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Low-Volume Session
China will aim to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in its overall energy consumption to 10.7 percent in 2014, in an effort to further improve its energy mix, the national energy authority said on Tuesday. Raising energy efficiency, ...
Tags: Non-Fossil Fuel, Mineral
Investors are second-guessing the underlying strength of the world’s two biggest economies as each faces homegrown challenges. China is still expected to maintain steady growth this year, albeit without the vim it once had. But its ...
Tags: Chinese Economies, U.S.Economies
In the past half century, power plants in the United States have made considerable strides in water use, but there is still a long way to go, according to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). More than 70 ...
SHIJIAZHUANG - Shijiazhuang, one of China's smoggiest cities, plans to cut coal consumption by 15 million tonnes in four years, including 4 million tonnes this year. The capital of North China's Hebei province, also plans to reduce iron ...
Tags: Coal Consumption, Metallurgy