Coal Top Stories

South Africa’s Exxaro Resources FY earnings jump on higher coal prices

Exxaro's coal export volumes surged to a record 8 million tonnes. Revenue jumped 12% to 25.491 billion rand compared with 22.813 billion rand the previous year.

Reuters | March 14, 2019 | 9:34 am

Greece’s Public Power relaunches coal-fired power plants sale

PPC wants to conclude the sale by May and has…

Reuters | March 13, 2019 | 10:51 am

Mining’s dirty secret faces a climate reckoning

Producing a single metric ton of steel in a blast…

Bloomberg News | March 13, 2019 | 9:52 am

When paying $1 for a coal power plant is still paying too much

A New York-based company is in talks to buy the…

Bloomberg News | March 12, 2019 | 12:55 pm

South Africa’s Eskom may need more bailouts despite tariff hikes

Eskom supplies more than 90 percent of the power in…

Reuters | March 7, 2019 | 10:24 am

Operations at Freeport Grasberg copper mine remain blocked

Protesters are demanding management to review safety conditions following a fatal accident on Sept. 27.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 2, 2014 | 11:00 am

Canada’s Nova Scotia introduces ruling to ban fracking

The proposed law, however, would allow fracking for testing and research purposes.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 5:42 pm

Rio Tinto, Glencore could save $500m by joining coal businesses

It would also create a a 15-kilometre long ‘‘super pit’’ from the union of Rio’s Mount Thorley Warkworth and Glencore’s Bulga open-pit mines.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 3:15 pm

Solar power to replace coal as world’s top electricity source by 2050 — IEA

Coal currently generates about 36% of global electric power, according to the energy watchdog.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 29, 2014 | 6:40 pm

India’s biggest underground coal mine opens next month

With an annual capacity of 2.8 million tonnes the mine is expected to help feed the country’s starved power stations.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 29, 2014 | 3:39 pm

China to impose revamped coal tax in December

The new resource expected to encourage a more efficient use of coal, which has been blamed for the nation's severe air pollution troubles.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 29, 2014 | 2:32 pm

Coal still burning hot in Alberta

The Edmonton Journal published an article last week on the Genesee 1, 2 and 3 coal-fired generating facilities, located not far from the Alberta capital.

Andrew Topf | September 28, 2014 | 9:38 pm