Exploration & development

Adani Mining has stopped engineering work on its Carmichael project and is awaiting approval to develop Abbot Point port.

Google has chosen to build its newest data centre at a soon-to-retire coal plant in North Alabama.

Following exploration work and evaluating results, Rio Tinto will not go forward with the Mt Hillalong project.

Edenville Energy’s mining licence application for the Rukwa coal project is being prepared for submission.

A further two coal operating contracts have been awarded to Altura Mining’s subsidiary company, Altura Mining Philippines.

The long-running dispute between the Indonesian government and Churchill Mining over the East Kutai coal project could be nearing a conclusion.

Crown Mountain environmental permitting passes important milestone.

Atlantic Coal has announced that Wardell Armstrong International Ltd have re-assessed the Stockton reserve.

The agreement over development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine will boost the attractiveness of the Mongolian mining sector, says Aspire Mining.

The South African Department of Mineral Resources has granted a New Order Mining Right for Coal of Africa’s Makhado hard coking and thermal coal project.

Aspire Mining’s Northern Railways subsidiary is set to begin negotiations with the Mongolian government over the Erdenet-to-Ovoot rail concession.

The Ekhgoviin Chuluu Joint Venture between Aspire Mining and the Noble Group has increased its interest in the Nuurstei metallurgical coal project to 90%.

Coal of Africa has reached agreement with its creditors over repayment of the outstanding purchase price of the Chapudi coal assets.

Anti-mining protestors put GVK through further court processes by opposing the Alpha Coal Project, causing delays in thousands of jobs and difficulties for GVK. GVK have set out how it will overcome this and why the project is important.

Aspire Mining has received the independent geology report for its Nuurstei metallurgical coal project in Mongolia.