by Gordon Barratt | May 20, 2020 | News
The nation has officially ended its capacity to regularly produce electricity from coal, making it the second country in Europe to do so. The final power plant remaining in operation, the government owned Verbund Mellach facility, was switched to a backup role last...
by Gordon Barratt | May 19, 2020 | News
Image: Rio Tinto The Mongolian Government has notified Rio Tinto that it will develop a state-owned coal-fired power plant to fuel the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine. This scraps the company’s planned spending of $US924 million ($1.4 billion) to construct a 300 megawatt...
by Gordon Barratt | May 19, 2020 | News
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) is set to launch a series of digital conferences this year, including the uranium, lithium and Minesafe conferences. The International Uranium Digital Conference is celebrating its 15th year and is the first...
by Gordon Barratt | May 19, 2020 | News
A truck enters a mine belonging to the now-bankrupt Revelation coal company. Coal company American Resources Corporation, which owns mines in Kentucky and West Virginia, is facing sanctions after failing to comply with a bankruptcy court’s orders, even after the...
by Gordon Barratt | May 19, 2020 | News
Union Minister of Coal and Mines, Pralhad Joshi said that there is no question about the privatization of Coal India. He said, “Coal India will achieve 1 billion tonnes coal production by 2023-24. I also assure my brothers that Coal India as on date has enough...
by Gordon Barratt | May 19, 2020 | News
Global miner Glencore Plc and Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power agreed on a price of $68.75 per tonne for thermal coal from Australia for the year through March 2021, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The price, which serves as an industry...
