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.
Myanmar cancelled a proposed coal-fired power plant at a Thai-led industrial site Monday citing "environmental problems", an energy official said, in the latest sign of burgeoning reform.
Thermal coal company Pan Asia Corporation (ASX: PZC) has clinched $1 million in funding from Kopex for drilling through to final feasibility study at its flagship TCM coal development project in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Miners Xstrata Copper and Highlands Pacific have delayed the completion of the feasibility study for the Frieda River joint venture copper/gold project, in Papua New Guinea, by 11 months. Xstrata was initially schedule to deliver the study in January 2012, to maintain its 81.82 percent shareholding in the project.
Indochine Mining (ASX: IDC) has commenced the first phase of a drill programme of up to 10,000 metres at its Mt Kare gold/silver project in Papua New Guinea, designed to generate core for metallurgical test work. Mt Kare is potentially a two million ounce gold/silver deposit.
19-NOV-2011 Intellasia | Business Week Free newsletter - click here China Steel Corp., Taiwan's largest producer, is in talks with BHP Billiton Ltd, Rio Tinto Group and Vale SA to delay or cut iron ore and coking coal deliveries as lower output red...
Kusuma Raya Utama, an Indonesian-Chinese joint venture, is planning to begin production at its second underground thermal coal mine, located in Bengkulu on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in April 2012, an official with an associate company said...
Coal miner Bumi Plc, a venture between financier Nat Rothschild and Indonesia's Bakrie family, said it was on track to hit its 2011 output goal after a 35 percent rise in third-quarter production, with prices ahead of expectations. Indonesia-focuse...
Newmont Mining Corp's Indonesian unit said output was unaffected at its copper and gold mine even though 400 workers had gone on strike in a dispute over working shifts. "It is true that around 400 workers are on strike due to working shifts,&...
BHP Billiton Ltd said Thursday it plans to begin work on the $1.34 billion IndoMet coal project in Indonesia within weeks, a move that would open up a new mining area to help meet Asian demand.
Local gold prices often higher than the world price by 2 million dong/tael and gold import policy has contributed to helping a number of gold trading firms make huge profits.
Iron ore fell to its lowest level of the year and copper plunged more than 6 per cent as Chinese investors led a wave of selling across industrial commodities markets amid concerns of a global economic slowdown. The sharp falls came as the eurozone deb...
