Coal - 09 September 2014

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.