Coal

NSW’s IPC has conditionally approved a ‘reasonable brownfield extension’ to an Upper Hunter coal mine, operated by Mangoola Coal Operations.

VGK intends to create a ‘Green Coal Cluster’ in the Uglegorsk District of the Sakhalin Region.

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has granted development consent for a proposed extension to the Tahmoor Coal Mine.

IMAN has released a report for India's import of coal for March 2021.

MC Mining has provided an activities report for the quarter ended 31 March 2021.

A consortium led by Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, has completed the construction of Nakoso IGCC Power GK’s integrated coal gasification combined cycle plant in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.

India’s National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) has been granted the mining lease of the Utkal E coal block.

The coal seaport of Shakhtersk is the first in the Sakhalin region to receive the largest 300 m vessel for loading, with a carrying capacity of 206 000 t.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has announced US$6 million in federal funding for research and development to produce valuable products from coal waste-derived sources.

The share of coal-fired power in Indonesia's energy mix increased on the year to 38% in 2020 from 37.1% a year earlier, Argus Media has reported.

Johnson Winter & Slattery has advised Peabody on its sale of the Millennium coal mine in Queensland to MetRes (a 50/50 JV between Stanmore Coal and M Resources).

Whitehaven Coal has released its March 2021 quarter production report and revised FY21 guidance.

Trafo Power Solutions has customised two dry-type transformers for a coal mine in South Africa’s Limpopo province.

Mechel PAO has reported that the group’s Southern Kuzbass Coal Co. is launching the second section of the longwall 3-1-11’s working area at Sibirginskaya Underground Mine.

Anglo American plc has announced the demerger of its thermal coal operations in South Africa, subject to the approval of its shareholders.