Covid-19 has everyone ditching coal quicker – except Asia

India's status as a major coal importer is starting to wane, and that is having a negative effect on a major supplier: Indonesia.

Queensland has released a final report into the re-emergence of coal worker pneumoconiosis, which confirms that a health screening system thought to protect underground coal workers has failed.

Coal India, which produces more than 80% of the country’s coal, plans to increase annual output to about 1 billion tonnes in the next four years.

The road to a coal-less future was strewn with two more casualties Tuesday, after a large Montana coal plant agreed to shut down two of its units.

It expects to fetch between $755 million to $1.1 billion for the nine trains, which carry coal from mines in NSW to port operations on Australia's eastern seaboard.

A crackdown by the Chinese government on surplus thermal coal has had a knock-on effect on the price.

Study shows there are more bullion miners among higher market capital ranking of mining companies in second quarter of 2016 than a year a go.

The company said financial losses at the mine threaten the viability of the rest of the Cooke operations, which include four mines and three processing plants.

The German banking giant is the last lender to pull back from the embattled coal sector.