Mining

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health issues a statement on the US Court of Appeals denial to challenges to the final rule Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust.

Cockatoo Coal hit record coal sales from its Baralaba mine in 4Q15, despite the appointment of administrators in November.

The Queensland Resources Council has written to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk seeking a meeting to discuss ways the government can support the state’s resources sector.

Tomas Eliasson has been appointed Executive Vice President and CFO of Sandvik.

A round-up of some of this week's key news items from the international coal industry, from outlooks on the US government implementing a halt on coal leases to an innovative concept to deploy CCS in the Europe.

South32’s coal production fell in the six months to December 2015 on the back of challenging geology at two of its Australian mines.

Peabody Energy enters definitive agreement to sell it interest in Prairie State Energy Campus: a 1600 MW coal-fired plant and adjacent coal mine in Illinois, USA.

Teck Resources was recognised as the top company in the Metals and Mining category and the second-ranked Canadian company on this year's Global 100 Must Sustainable Corporations list.

The American Coal Council has attacked the federal coal lease moratorium as another slice in the Obama administrations “death-by-a-thousand-cuts’ policy towards coal.

Peabody's North Antelope Rochelle mine reaches a major production milestone by shipping its 2 billionth short ton of coal.

Miners and mining equipment suppliers have made RobecoSAM’s “The Sustainability Yearbook” – although on one in the Coal & Consumable Fuels category.

The 235-188 House vote to advance the Supporting Transparent Regulatory and Environmental Actions in Mining (STREAM) Act is welcomed by US Rep. Paul A. Gosar.

Anglo American enters into a Share Sale Agreement with Batchfire Resources Pty to sell its 100% interest in the Callide thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia.

Institute of Energy Research President, Thomas Pyle, has released a scathing attack on the Obama administration’s decision to halt the grating of new coal leases on federal land.

Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dr Anthony Lynham, has confirmed a sixth case of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis.