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How to move beyond conventional thinking and achieve operational excellence.

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

Cloud Peak energy has increased its committed capacity of its throughput agreement with Canada’s Westshore Terminals.

Brown Coal Innovation Australia is to provide R&D funding for a carbon capture project at the Loy Yang brown coal-fired power in Victoria.

Largest generating unit at Martin Drake coal-fired power plant in Colorado due back online by end of August, as repairs continue following a fire.

Cluff Natural Resources shelves plans to develop underground coal gasification project in Warwickshire, UK.

Mine scheduling and simulation expert, RungePincockMinarco, will develop its own mine design package, following its purchase of the Mine2-4D design software from MineRP.

A desalination plant will remove salt from produced water at AGL Energy’s coalbed methane project in Gloucester, New South Wales.

A number of digital highlights from the August issue of World Coal magazine.

Pacific National, a division of Asciano Ltd, has welcomed the arrival of new 88 class locomotives, which will be used across its Queensland coal operations.

Arch Coal’s Vindex Energy has received the 2013 Excellence in Reforestation regional award from the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI).

IchorCoal has substantially increased turnover on the back of a sharp rise in coal production at South African mining operations.