Coal

More than 8000 coal workers will be forced to take annual leave as Glencore temporarily shuts down coal production in Australia.

Metallurgical and thermal coal prices continued to drop in Q3, according to the latest BREE/Westpac China Resources Quarterly, as new Chinese government regulations hit imports.

Czech coal mining company, New World Resources, has posted a bigger-than-expected net loss over Q3 2014.

Skill levels in the coal sector will need a boost if South Africa is going to make the best of smaller coal deposits.

Piyush Goyal, the Indian minister for power and coal, has said it might be possible for the country to wean itself off imports within three years.

Korea Midland Power Co. signs agreement with Carbo One, the second largest mining company in Russia.

Germany hopes to dissuade Sweden’s state-owned energy company, Vattenfall, from selling its lignite assets.

The world is still very much dependent on coal for low-cost energy, says a recent report from the Manhatten Institute for Policy Research.

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

Coal India could boost coal output beyond 1 billion t, according to a government official.

Peabody Chairman and CEO, Gregory Boyce, has called on global leaders to use lessons learned from three major APEC nations to improve global energy policy.

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

Tajikistan has reached the coal production target for 2014 with two months to spare.

Anglo American has extended its contract with Hughes Drilling for overburden drilling at the Callide opencast coal mine in Australia.

Stockpiles of coal at coal-fired power plants in the US are smaller than in recent years.