April 17, 2012
Three weeks after SouthGobi Resources' $925 million deal with Chalco, the Government of Mongolia told SouthGobi that it had to suspend exploration and mining activity on certain licenses.
April 17, 2012
While Silicon Valley maybe a center of the environmental activism, Greenpeace issued a report on Tuesday accusing IT companies of setting up data centers in the eastern United States where…
April 16, 2012
Anglo American (LON:AAL) and Xstrata (LON:XTA) coal mines are among the four operations being investigated over probable environmental violations, after they were accused of discharging contaminated water into the Fitzroy…
April 16, 2012
MINING.com counts more than 90 billionaires involved in minerals, metals and mining on the planet with a combined wealth of well over $300 billion.
April 15, 2012
Transnet on Monday raised the curtain on its recently announced $37 billion expansion programme, saying it included an ambition to take thermal coal rail capacity to 98Mt per year by…
April 15, 2012
Influential shareholders in Coal of Queensland will take court action today as part of a dispute over whether they should be allowed to buy a large part of the company…
April 15, 2012
Only six years ago the U.S. Department of Energy was anticipating a "coal resurgence," counting 150 new coal plants planned across the country (including 11 in the Pacific Northwest and…
April 14, 2012
The very survival of Britain?s coal mining industry depends on the success of a massive restructuring of UK Coal, which is to be announced in the next fortnight.
April 14, 2012
London-listed Churchill Mining will take the Indonesian government to international arbitration and seek more than $2 billion in compensation in a dispute over a huge coal asset.
April 13, 2012
China, the world's biggest consumer of coal, said that the gross domestic product came in at 8.1% in the first quarter, the lowest figure in three years.
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