Exploration & development

Stanmore Resources has announced its September 2021 quarterly report.

Cokal Ltd has announced that its 60% owned subsidiary and owner of the BBM Project, PT Bumi Barito Mineral (BBM), has executed two binding agreements to fund the development of the BBM Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Anglo American plc has announced the completion of the demerger of its thermal coal operations in South Africa.

Allegiance Coal Ltd has announced the commencement of production at the New Elk Mine and its production and sales plans for 2H22.

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

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

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

Tlou Energy has reported that Botswana's Department of Environmental Affairs has approved the EIS for its Boomslang project.

A coalfield with an estimated deposit of dozens of millions of tons has recently been found in the northern part of South Phyongan Province in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Resource exploration spending in Queensland increased by almost AUS$130 million or 23% in 2020, according to new data released by the Australia Bureau of Statistics.

Tlou Energy Ltd has released its operation report for 4Q20.

Tlou Energy Ltd has provided a tender timetable, finance and gas production update.

Exploration activity across coal, petroleum, gold and copper deposits in Queensland continues to rise despite COVID and a drop in coal and petroleum prices, Queensland Exploration Council (QEC) Chair, Kim Wainwright, has said.

Following the completion of a £4 million second phase, the Coal Authority’s Lynemouth mine water treatment scheme in Northumberland can now treat the equivalent of 2400 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water every year.

Last month the £1.5 billion A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme was completed six months ahead of schedule, providing improved links between the East of England, the Midlands and the North.