Mining - 12 February 2016

A round-up of some of this week's key news items from the international coal industry, from the latest mining updates to outlooks on the US Supreme Court stay of the Clean Power Plan.

US mining and exploration investment spending fell by 25% in 2015, the second largest year-on-year fall since reporting began.

The South African Competition Commission has recommended the purchase of Optimum Coal by Tegata Exploration and Resources be approved.

THEnergy and Ripasso have released a study on the uses of renewables in mining.