Coal Top Stories

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

A New York-based company is in talks to buy the 847-megawatt San Juan Generating Station for $1, after four of its five owners decided to shut it down.

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

Aussie state wants to attract more women to the mining workforce

The emphasis is on getting more women at senior levels.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 7, 2019 | 6:59 am

China’s iron ore futures fall as anti-smog measures weigh

The level 1 alert, the highest in China's four-tier pollution…

Reuters | March 6, 2019 | 1:05 pm

Global Mineral Professionals Alliance launches tailings initiative

The members of the Alliance agreed on the urgency of…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 6, 2019 | 7:07 am

India may ask state-run miner to import coal

Coal-based power plants struggling to meet demand.

Jeffrey Richmond | July 14, 2014 | 5:40 pm

For US coal industry, volatility ‘a new normal’

The sector is facing an even more uncertain future as the impacts from weaker demand and environmental regulations are creating more contractual volatility from the utilities to the railroads.

SNL Metals & Mining | July 14, 2014 | 4:32 pm

Slow growth spoiling China’s appetite for coal

In the first half of 2014, the country’s coal imports grew just 0.9%, compared with 13.3% a year earlier.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 14, 2014 | 4:03 pm

BHP sell-off could undo Billiton historic deal

As BHP considers the sale of almost all of the businesses that Billiton brought to the 2001 merger deal, experts say the firm is likely to end up leaving London.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 13, 2014 | 4:40 pm