New Delhi-based NTPC has placed orders for 20 million tons of imported coal for the fiscal year ending March.

Production of metallurgical coal rose to 1.38 million tonnes in the three months to June 30.

A section of a mountain collapsed at a coal mine in China’s northwestern Gansu province.

To put fossil fuel consumption into perspective on a more individual basis, this graphic visualizes the average person’s fossil fuel use over a lifetime of 80 years.

China, which produces more than half the world’s coal, has said consumption won’t peak until 2025.

The project has annual production capacity of 4 million tonnes a year.

It has been nearly a decade since the Sukunka metallurgical coal mine proposal was first pitched to the BC Environmental Assessment Office.