BHP turns to electric pickups as miners seek emissions cuts

South African miner Exxaro is eyeing South32's local coal assets, which include an export quota, as it looks to increase its exports.

Coal’s push to $100 a ton in Europe may benefit the greenest energy providers more than it does for miners.

New Mining Charter seeks to reduce uncertainty and boost investment in the sector.

This winter, regulators are replacing hard caps on coal use and steel production with less strict targets.

Coal currently feeds about 27% of the world’s energy demand.

Fitch suggests that miners' focus would probably be on cost controls.

Greek utility Public Power Corp. (PPC), which is 51 percent state-owned, is selling three coal-fired plants and one still to be built.

Northern China’s key industrial hub will adopt a more flexible program for its anti-pollution output curbs this winter.

Indonesia has increased its 2018 coal production target to around 507 million tonnes from a previous target of 485 million tonnes which may add to downward pressure on prices for the fuel.