Major Chinese coal miners will be able to temporarily adjust their coal output in either direction between September and December after an agreement with the China Coal Trade and Development Association, industry sources said Friday. The ...
Tags: coal miners, Ferrochrome
A novel cable designed by a Chinese company could help protect the lives of the country's millions of miners by providing life necessities in times of crisis. The multifunctional cable uses a stainless-steel tube inside a traditional ...
Poland is planning to sell its hard coal stockpiles to Ukraine in order to raise cash to inject liquidity into the country's struggling state-owned coal miners, development minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said Monday. "There is a coal ...
Tags: coal, coking coal, anthracite
Coal provides nearly two thirds of China's energy, but for mining companies, this winter could not be more chilly. The government has done its best to save the day, but it is not enough to force up the price of coal, even in the short ...
Tags: Coal Industry, Coal
China plans to levy a resources tax on coal based on sales value instead of production volume, as well as scrapping arbitrary levies on coal miners starting from December 1, taxation and fiscal authorities said over the weekend. ...
Tags: Resources Tax, Coal
Large Chinese thermal coal miners were dropping their selling prices for domestic 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal, depressing demand for imported material, sources said Friday. An Indonesia-based trader said that Shenhua had cut its price for ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, power plants
Production cuts at Indonesian thermal coal mines could only at best help stabilize prices but further gains would be capped by sagging demand from both India and China in the spot market, sources said Wednesday. A Singapore-based trader ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, thermal coal mines
The total coal output in North China's Shanxi Province reached a record 960 million tons in 2013, up from 913 million tons a year earlier, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. Out of this total output, 620 million tons of coal were ...
Tags: Coal Production, coal miners
Not many thermal coal buyers are looking to conclude deals for imported material this week with Chinese Lunar New Year holidays approaching, sources said Monday. "The delivery window before the Lunar New Year is closed," a source at a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Imported Material
A spike in the front-quarter CIF ARA c had eastern US coal export executives guessing Wednesday how much the out-of-the-money range for Central Appalachian thermal coal prices had narrowed. Platts assessed Wednesday the API2 Q1 2014 ...
Tags: East Coast Coal, Coal
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
Tags: steel, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral
Accounts receivables for China's major coal companies reached 330.8 billion yuan ($54.03 billion) at the end of June, the highest level over the past decade, official industry figures showed. According to China National Coal Association, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Australia's government is to speed up the country's transition to a carbon emissions trading system by dropping its fixed-price carbon tax in 2014, a year earlier than planned, Australian treasurer Chris Bowen said over the weekend. From ...
China's proposed ban on imports of low calorific value thermal coal will have a serious impact on Indonesian sub-bituminous coal prices, industry sources said Thursday. Platts, quoting well-informed sources, reported this week that ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Indonesian Prices
Participants in the biggest Asian coal conference in Bali, Indonesia, in the first week of June will be eying whether China will continue to remain relatively passive in importing thermal coal, industry sources said Monday. Participants ...
Tags: thermal coal, Coaltrans Asia