
Ukraine to buy 1 million t of coal from South Africa
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.
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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.

Five news stories that caught the attention of the World Coal team this week.

Former Labor climate change minister, Greg Combet, backs coalbed methane in Australia.

Glencore’s head of local coal operations, Mick Buffier, has said the Australian coal industry is globally uncompetitive.

Dust control systems for roof bolting in underground mines.

A weak coal landscape impacts Joy Global’s earnings over Q3 2014.

Tata Steel’s Abrazo Impact: quenched and tempered plates with high-impact toughness for demanding wear applications.

Mongolia once boasted one of the most exciting frontier mining economies in the world but investor interest in the country is fading as government intervention stymies growth.

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s recently proposed carbon dioxide performance standards are not simply implausible, but actually impossible.

The market for fleet management systems is saturated and the systems themselves so refined that any upgrades provide only marginal value added benefit. So what is the next step change?

CSIRO has released a detailed video explaining vital information about coalbed methane, how it is extracted, and some of the challenges involved with its production.