Coal

The Solntsevsky coal mine, a key mining asset of the Eastern Mining Company, has introduced a modern high-speed refuelling of mining equipment.

The coronavirus pandemic and persistently low prices of metallurgical coal have made a strong impact on 1H20 results of the JSW Group.

Two US Department of Energy National Laboratories, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are working with the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University to further the research and development of coal-derived carbon fibres.

Edenville Energy Plc has provided a short update on operations at its Rukwa Coal Project in southwest Tanzania.

Modular Mining has recently announced that Glencore has selected the its fleet management and machine guidance systems to support the United Wambo Joint Venture project.

Mining3 and CR Digital have announced a partnership with the next phase of development in Top of Coal technology.

The Queensland Resources Council has applauded QCoal’s Indigenous participation rates at the company’s Byerwen coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia.

Bis has been awarded an extension to its long-term contract with AGL Macquarie to continue equipment hire and site services in New South Wales, Australia.

The PBE team in Tomago recently completed the supply of a certified flameproof enclosure for a Wildcat Miner for an engineering company in Queensland, Australia.

NTPC Ltd has developed an infrastructure at Rihand project in Uttar Pradesh, India, to transport fly ash in bulk to cement plants, located at distance, at a cheaper cost.

The Norwegian state and the industry partners Total, Shell and Equinor have signed the agreements that ensure continued operation of Technology Centre Mongstad from now until the end of 2023.

EIA has reported how, after reaching their lowest level in more than a decade in March 2019, US coal stockpiles steadily increased to 152 million t in April 2020, recovering to levels not seen in 3 years.

In a NETL-supported project with Virginia Tech, researchers have developed a safe and efficient processing technology that can extract and concentrate rare earth elements (REE) from coal refuse material.

Jastrzebska Spólka Weglowa has joined the group of science institutions as a representative of the mining and coke sector in the work in the Polish Committee for Standardization.

The National Mining Association (NMA) has recently recognised Usibelli Coal Mine for its CORESafety® certification.