Coal Top Stories

Caterpillar touts automation solutions as top miners swing back to profit

The world's No.1 heavy machinery maker is telling miners not to rest on their laurels now that the industry is finally coming back up from a brutal downturn and keep focused on maximizing returns and efficiency.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 22, 2017 | 9:00 am

Anglo American not selling assets any more as it returns to profit

The world's number five diversified miner posted its first annual…

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 22, 2017 | 3:10 am

Global steel production is surging in 2017

Up 7% year on year across all regions, supporting rally…

Frik Els | February 21, 2017 | 11:08 am

BHP Billiton back into the black, pays higher-than-expected dividend

Net profit was $3.2bn for the six months to December…

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 21, 2017 | 3:10 am

North Korea lights fire under coking coal price

The totalitarian state is the number three supplier to China…

Frik Els | February 20, 2017 | 10:51 am

Zimbabwe ‘owns’ majority of all foreign mining companies

Zimbabwe's Black Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, announced today it has taken majority ownership of foreign-owned mining firms, which had not already given a controlling stake to black Zimbabweans.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 5, 2012 | 3:53 pm

Too much of a good thing?

A recent study published by Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute calls for a slowdown in mining investment.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 5, 2012 | 2:30 pm

Alpha Natural Resources to permanently close Upper Big Branch Mine

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR) announced today that it plans to permanently close the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine near Whitesville, W.Va.

PR Newswire: Mining | April 5, 2012 | 5:48 am

‘Shocking’ trade numbers have some Australians calling the end of the mining boom

The commodity price cycle peaked in the third quarter of last year.

Frik Els | April 4, 2012 | 11:05 pm

Miner union chief: EPA killing us like Navy SEALs kill terrorists

Chalk up another fracture in the Big Labor-environmentalist alliance: United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts unloaded on the Environmental Protection Agency in a radio interview Tuesday.

Investors Business Daily | April 4, 2012 | 8:42 pm

Indonesia’s proposed export tax has Indian power companies scrambling

Indonesia's proposed tax on mining exports is having a ripple effect on Indian power companies that buy fuel for coal-fired power plants.

Andrew Topf | April 4, 2012 | 5:20 pm

U.S. mining regulator tightens coal mines safety rules

As families and friends of dead miners mark the second anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia on April 5, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration announced it would issue its final set of rules for inspecting underground coal mines on Friday.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 4, 2012 | 1:19 pm

BHP Australia coal mines vote to continue strike

Australian coal mines owned by BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (TYO:8058) in the Bowen Basin area voted to resume their strike, momentarily stopped this morning, right after Easter.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 4, 2012 | 12:38 pm

Black lung payouts expanded under little known Obamacare section

While speculation about the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on the Affordable Care Act has been getting all the attention, there is a little known provision in the law that reinstates an old protection, an expansion of benefits for victims of black lung.

Michael Allan McCrae | April 4, 2012 | 6:48 am

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