The Landree underground steam coal mine in southern Indiana is back in production and its new owners intend to resume shipments to Indianapolis Power & Light in May, a company official confirmed Wednesday. "We started running coal last ...
Tags: Steam Coal, coal mine
Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the third quarter and the first nine months ended March 31, 2014, lifting its iron ore production guidance for the financial year 2013-14 by five million mt to 217 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, BHP Billiton
Australian coking coal producer Beacon Hill Resources has announced its interim results for 2013, reporting a net loss of $19.24 million, narrowing down from the net loss of $45.13 million in the previous year. The company's revenues ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Beacon Hill Resources
Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that a new dressing plant to handle 3 million metric tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine. The new Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya dressing ...
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Indonesian thermal coal exporters are now required to produce a certificate clearing the miner to produce coal before they ship material overseas, a government official said. The latest move is the second regulatory obstacle encountered ...
Tags: Coal Exporters, Regulatory Hurdle
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
China is targeting to raise its synthetic coal-to-gas output to 50 billion cubic meters by 2020, accounting for over 12% of domestic supply, an official with the National Energy Administration said Wednesday. But actual output may fall ...
Tags: Coal-to-Gas Output, Energy
They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
Tags: coal industry, Mineral
Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, people get sick from eating food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 48 million of us get sick each year, with 125,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Many of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days. As December ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Electric-Blue Clouds
Qinghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Xining Special Steel Co. has announced that it has agreed with its two partners, Shandong Energy Feicheng Mining Group Co. and Lanzhou Coal Mine Supporting Materials Co. to increase the capital of ...
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Chinese coal mine machinery industry took to hydraulic support research and development from the late 1960s, and introduced dozens of sets of hydraulic supports from the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland and the former Soviet Union in the ...
China will raise the threshold on new coal mines and halt approval on those that do not meet specified requirements, in the latest effort to regulate the oversupplied sector. New coal mines with annual output below 300,000 tons and ...
Tags: Coal Mine, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Vale announced Monday that it plans to sell as much as 407 million shares (an approximate 22 percent stake) of Oslo, Norway-based aluminum producer Norsk Hydro ASA in order to cut costs and boost profits. Norsk Hydro is valued at about ...
Tags: Vale, Aluminum Shares
Russian mining and steel producing company Evraz Group has announced that it has signed a binding agreement for the sale of the Gramoteinskaya thermal coal mine, part of its wholly-owned subsidiary Yuzhkuzbassugol Coal Company, to Lehram ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy