It’s never been a better time to make money by digging up coal.

Mining companies around the world are turning to new technologies to extract more from current operations as new deposits become pricier and trickier to find and develop.

Scarcity in the physical supply chain has drained metal away from the exchange, hitting rental revenue for storage suppliers, writes Andy Home.

Company reported a 33% jump in first-half production costs on Friday.

Aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on routes between BHP’s mines in Chile and PPC’s smelters in Japan.

The flagship company of the Adani Group got the approval to build the refinery and a captive power plant in Rayagada.

Neal Froneman, who has urged gold miners to consolidate, said "the market is just not conducive at this stage to doing value-accretive transactions."