Rio Tinto fined for exceeding blast limits
Rio Tinto’s Hunter Valley Operations has been fined by the New South Wales Department of Planning for exceeding blast limits.
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Rio Tinto’s Hunter Valley Operations has been fined by the New South Wales Department of Planning for exceeding blast limits.
The European Commission has approved plans by the Spanish government to provide €2.8 billion to help close loss-making coal mines.
The Department of Water & Sanitation has awarded Wescoal’s opencast Khanyisa coal mine a 20-yr water usage licence.
Glencore has begun planning for the closure of its Tahmoor underground coal mine in New South Wales.
The Colorado School of Mines and MICROMINE partner to develop talented students and teachers within the Geology and Geological Engineering Department.
US coal production is down by almost a third year-to-date, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
The Minerals Council of Australia has appointed Dr Vanessa Guthrie, Chief Executive of Toro Energy, as its new chairperson.
The Chief Financial Officer of Russian mining and metals company Mechel is leaving the company.
Sandvik forms a joint venture with Chinese mining equipment supplier Lingong Group Jinan Heavy Machinery Co., for the production and sales of opencast and underground mining equipment.
Inspiration Resources’ No.5 mine was ordered to close while work to fix safety violations was carried out after inspectors issued three unwarrantable failure orders.
The US coal industry faces two decades of contraction, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Reference Case forecast in the Annual Energy Outlook 2016.
The Queensland Resources Council has criticised an amendment to the state’s mining law that re-establishes some objection rights to large mining projects.