Exploration & development

Atrum Coal NL reports positive progress after identifying various potential new mines at the Groundhog anthracite project, located in British Columbia, Canada.

A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from updates on developments, projects and operations to outlooks on coal consumption and production.

SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Corp. and Firebird Mongolia Fund Ltd complete a joint development agreement for the development and financing of the Tevshiin Gobi power plant project in Mongolia.

BHP Billiton and SaskPower join in a partnership to increase the global development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology by sharing data and information from SaskPower’s Boundary Dam facility.

The SCCS CO2 MultiStore Joint Industry Project provides findings from a study of rocks beneath the UK North Sea, which uncovers benefits of storing carbon dioxide in multiple user storage sites.

BME’s AXXIS digital initiation system, Omnia Subsidiary Advanced Initiating Systems (AIS) successfully blasts 4485 detonators in a northeastern state of Queensland coal mine, Australia.

Aspire Mining announce preliminary results from a scooping study for the Erdenet to Ovoot railway, indicating multiple efficient alignment paths available between Ovoot to Arts Suuri and onto Kyzyl in Russia.

A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from updates on projects to the latest technological developments.

The Supreme Court rejects appeals from anti-mining activists to GVK Hancock’s environmental approvals for the Alpha coal project.

The completion of the Concession Agreement to build and operate the Erdenet to Ovoot railway (rail project) is executed during signing ceremonies in Mongolia and China.

Aspire Mining enters funding agreement with Signum Resources to meet the first stage of the bankable feasibility study for the Erdenent to Ovoot rail project.

A round-up of some of this week’s key news items from the international coal industry, from the latest sales and acquisitions to updates on coal production.

Coal seams have been intersected at the Nuurstei coal project in northern Mongolia, a joint venture between Aspire Mining and the Noble Group.

Kibo Mining has announced the findings for the mining prefeasibility study for its Mbeya (formerly Rukwa) coal-to-power project.

Oracle Coalfields coal price petition has been admitted by the Sindh provincial government, allowing the company to proceed with its coal and power project in the Thar desert.