South32 to spin off South Africa coal business

The incident is considered the worst mining disaster in Wales in the last three decades.

While miners that already hold licenses will be allowed to keep working in the area, the authority emphasized that those permits will not be renewed once they expire.

Eskom's announcement removes one of the last few hurdles in the two companies' quest to create the world's fourth-biggest diversified miner.

HD Mining, the company at the centre of a court battle over Chinese workers at a coal mine in British Columbia, Canada, will release résumés of Canadians who applied for, but didn’t get, jobs at the project.

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Finley must ensure disclosure of documents about temporary foreign workers and their permits from HD Mining

The giant miner will take about $14 billion of writedowns for failed deals in aluminum and coal led by Tom Albanese.

The Queensland coal sector saw a surge in mining-related accidents and injuries in 2012.

Satellite images released by NASA reveal the full and appalling extent of the air pollution which afflicting large swathes of north-eastern China