Mining

A core group of doctors will be given specific training in the diagnosis of coal miners pneumoconiosis to help tackle the re-emergence of the disease in Queensland.

Labour unrest will pose a challenge to the coal mining industries in South and Africa in 2016.

Former CEO of BHP Billiton has been appointed to the board of FLSmidth.

SunCoke Energy Inc. divests its coal mining business to Revelation Energy LLC.

Stanmore Coal has processed its first product coal at Isaac Plains.

South Africa mining company, Pan Africa, has completed the purchase of Uitkomst coal mine.

Australian engineering company is to close its coal mining services businesses and exit the sector on the back on unsustainable pressure to reduce prices.

The IRMA releases second draft, Standard for Responsible Mining, inviting comments ahead of the global certification for industrial-scale mine sites, planned for late 2016.

Yancoal has lost control of its Ashton, Austar and Donaldson coal mines as part of a debt financing agreement.

A US federal appeals court has vacated an ealrier court order stopping mining operations at Area IV North of the Navajo coal mine.

Anglo American will sell its 70% interest in the Foxleigh coal mine in Queensland, Australia, to a consortium led by Taurus Fund Management.

A round-up of some of this week's key news items from the international coal industry, from recently commissioned coal plants to the latest sales and acquisitions.

CONSOL Energy closes on the sale of the Buchanan mine and other metallurgical coal assets to Coronado for total consideration of US$420 million.

Foresight Energy, has received permission from the Mine Safety and Health Administration to temporarily seal the entire Deer Run mine, in Illinois, the US, to reduce or eliminate oxygen flow paths into the mine.

Peabody Energy announces redundancies at its North Antelope Rochelle mine in the Powder River Basin.