Coal Top Stories

Rio Tinto rejects push by activist shareholders to reveal emission targets

Miner has hit back at a push to make it more accountable for carbon emissions produced by its customers, including Chinese steel makers.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 18, 2019 | 3:52 am

The coal miner who bet everything on U.S. power markets and lost

Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. made an all-or-nothing…

Bloomberg News | March 17, 2019 | 11:21 am

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

Exxaro's coal export volumes surged to a record 8 million…

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

Mass grave with hundreds of skeletons found in Bolivian mining town

Hundreds of thousands have died over the years at the city's main silver mine, as a direct result of cave-ins, overwork, hunger and disease.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 27, 2014 | 5:42 pm

Freeport, Indonesia make peace: copper exports to resume in August

Indonesia's top copper miner hopes next month to ramp up production and restart concentrate shipments from Grasberg, one of the world's largest copper mines.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 25, 2014 | 4:34 pm

Miners need to overhaul business model to boost productivity: study

Cost reduction measures in the mining industry could well have undermined the sector's productivity, which remains down, according to a new EY report.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 25, 2014 | 11:02 am

Teck Resources’ profit hit by lower coal prices

The price drop overshadowed the miner’s coal sales increase during the quarter, which totalled 6.8 million tonnes, compared with 6.3 million tonnes a year earlier.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 24, 2014 | 2:45 pm