Coal

Sembcorp Industries plans to invest 932 million yuan to develop a water management plant to support a coal-to-diesel project in China.

Forbes Coal has agreed to a wage increase of 9% for employees in categories four to eight.

Anglo American Q3 results show record metallurgical coal production exports.

Cockatoo Coal plans to raise AU$ 408 million to expand its Baralaba mine, repay debt and fund its Blackwood takeover.

Walkabout Resources has signed a MoA with technology company Coalswana to complete studies at its coal project in Botswana.

Magnum has reported 95% methane from drilling samples at its CBM permit in Botswana.

Combined stocks of thermal coal at power plants across India have fallen to just above 19 million t.

Peabody Energy releases Q3 2013 results, highlighting a loss compared to the same period last year.

Hwange Colliery is requesting bids for the provision of contract mining services.

Controversial planning application plans for an open cast coal mine will be considered by Midlothian Council.

AM Bromley and ENAiKOON have launched a unique tire monitor system that will provide substantial cost saving benefits.

Foster Wheeler subsidiary has been awarded a contract to design and erect a boiler island in Poland.

Aboitiz subsidiary Therma South has signed a multi million-dollar deal with banks to finance construction of a coal plant.

Australian Pacific Coal and Rio Tinto have intersected coal at the joint venture in Queensland.

In the first of two articles, Santu Tiwari and Deepak Kumar, GlobalData, UK, provide an insight into the Russian coal industry.