Coal

A rally in Australian coal prices has passed almost as quickly as it started.

Wood Mackenzie: India will be the largest driver of global seaborne coking coal demand growth in 2015.

Coal India Ltd may have finalised a blueprint to reach production capacity of 1 billion t of annual output by 2020.

The business plan unveiled for NKW, the planned successor to the existing Kompania Weglowa, has foreseen large profits starting in 2017.

Glencore International has followed up its cuts to Australian coal production with a reduction in its industrial capital expenditure.

Glencore presents the results of marketing, industrial and operating activities.

Kibo Mining has announced that it has received commitments to a share placing of 19 million new ordinary shares of €0.015.

Callide Oxyfuel Project demonstrates a future for low emission coal.

German union identifies potential buyer for Vattenfall lignite assets.

Rio Tinto is streamlining its product groups and corporate functions as part of the continued focus on efficiency and costs.

Hecla Mining Executive, James A. Sabala, has been elected to Arch Coal’s Board of Directors.

A new stream of grant funding has been allocated to help support both R&D projects and feasibility studies in the fields of extraction and the use of conventional fossil fuels.

According to Standard Bank, China’s investment in African resources is still at an early stage, but on a clear path to growth.

A Boart Longyear team has risen to the challenge of boring a ventilation shaft for an underground longwall coal mine in south west Wyoming.

Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota is to re-introduce legislation to encourage development of clean coal.