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U.S. coal miners are shovelling more money than ever at investors

Strong export prices are providing healthy cash flows for now. But with U.S. utilities largely shifting to cheap natural gas and clean renewables, there’s not much reason to dig new mines or scoop up acquisitions.

Bloomberg News | March 22, 2019 | 8:30 am

Coal mining comes back to the UK with $218 million project

West Cumbria Mining plans to open the country’s first new…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 20, 2019 | 9:15 am

One of Canada’s newest coal mines is piling up safety warnings

Kameron Coal’s Donkin mine has received four orders and six…

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 20, 2019 | 4:36 am

Taxes and royalties paid by Australian miners equivalent to Federal Government education spending

Aussie miners paid A$30.6 billion in company tax and royalties…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 19, 2019 | 7:02 am

Chinese go-slow on Australian coal imports may be starting to show

Chinese coal traders are reported to have cut back on…

Reuters | March 18, 2019 | 9:12 am

These are the assets Anglo American is kicking to the curb

The miner is completely exiting coal and selling several assets, to focus only on copper, diamonds and platinum.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 16, 2016 | 2:43 am

Anglo American debt down to junk, outlook negative

Moody's worried about company's bulk portfolio, especially iron ore, while its radical restructuring "faces high execution risk".

Frik Els | February 15, 2016 | 12:22 pm

Argentina’s new government scraps mining taxes

President Mauricio Macri has revoked a 5% tax imposed by the previous administration on mining companies.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 12, 2016 | 10:05 am

Pummeled by oil bets, Freeport and Teck get some crude reward

Teck Resources and Freeport-McMoRan led a mining stock rally on Friday as surging oil prices provided relief for their foray into energy before prices tumbled.

Bloomberg News | February 12, 2016 | 10:01 am

TransCanada posts $2.5bn loss in Q4 on Keystone XL charge

The net loss also included a number of other smaller items, partially offset by an increase in revenue to $2.85 billion from $2.62 billion.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 11, 2016 | 9:45 am

Teck Resources logs $536M loss in Q4 on depressed commodities, asset charge

The loss includes a Cdn$598 million impairment charge on its Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 11, 2016 | 7:15 am

Congo gives up plans to change mining code

The move could have driven away investors at a time of historically low commodity prices and energy shortages that are driving down output in the country.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 10, 2016 | 2:46 am

Government throws lifeline to BC mines

The B.C. government is throwing the mining industry an emergency lifeline in the form of deferred electricity bill payments that could be worth more than $300 million.

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | February 10, 2016 | 12:23 am