US authorities set stricter rules for coal mining near streams

The Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate, is said to be investigating a joint venture with South African coal producer Increase Coal.

None of mining's top companies escaped the carnage on Thursday after a survey of manufacturing in China showed activity slowed for a fifth straight month.

The 30% tax on iron ore and coal producers passed by the Australian government may raise the prices of those commodities but will also shrink margins of steelmakers, analysts say.

Coal mining in Appalachia has survived deadly explosions, the Great Depression and the country’s largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The latest threat is booming shale-gas production.

Australia's resources and energy commodity export earnings will continue to grow over the medium term to reach a record $225 billion in 2016-17, said today the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE).

Anglo American is looking for thermal coal assets in Australia and Indonesia, especially as prices of potential targets have come down, the head of its thermal coal unit said in an interview.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of involvement in coups and insurrections throughout history, but now an Australian mining tycoon is accusing the CIA of trying to sabotage the Australian coal industry.

Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has caused significant disruption at several coking coal mines in the Moranbah region of the Bowen Basin, in Australia's Queensland, market sources said Tuesday.

"The big infrastructure build clearly will come to some end," Ian Ashby, BHP's chief of iron ore said on Tuesday.