Poland urges power industry to help coal mining sector
The Polish Government wants the country’s power firms to help the embattled coal sector.
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The Polish Government wants the country’s power firms to help the embattled coal sector.
Anglo American’s Peace River coal mine in Canada will be suspended at the end of 2014.
Environmental baseline studies have begun at the Berkh Uul coal project in Mongolia.
Aspire Mining begins exploration programme at its Nuurstei coal project in Mongolia.
Coal exploration company, Shumba Coal, has been awarded rights to a new prospecting licence by Botswana’s Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources.
India’s Cabinet has approved the sale of a 10% stake in state-owned coal mining giant, Coal India.
Prairie Mining has started a prefeasibility study at its Lublin coal project in Poland.
Harry Kenyon-Slaney, chief executive – energy – at Rio Tinto has defended coal’s place in the energy mix at a recent business lunch.
Poland has blocked a plan by Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka to expand its mining operations and double local coal reserves.
The remaining five miners trapped underground in a tunnel collapse at a Bosnian coal mine have been confirmed as dead.
Ukrainian prime minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, said the country would buy 1 million t of coal from South Africa due to disruption to domestic coal mines.
29 Bosnian coal miners rescued from trouble-plagued mine after tunnel collapse. Five men remain underground.