Mining

A weak coal landscape impacts Joy Global’s earnings over Q3 2014.

The market for fleet management systems is saturated and the systems themselves so refined that any upgrades provide only marginal value added benefit. So what is the next step change?

IRN explains why it is more important than ever before that mining companies have effective crisis management protocols in place.

Progress continues with Tiaro Coal’s T9 West coal project in Queensland, Australia.

Conflow has supplied dust and fire suppression systems to a Colombian metallurgical coal mine.

Whitehaven Coal has released its Coal Reserves and Resources Statement 2014, showing a growth in marketable reserves of 5 million t.

Indonesia will cap coal production at 400 million t in 2015.

The Indian Supreme Court has found the process of allocation coal blocks for captive mining “arbitrary and illegal”.

Marianne Finch urges women in the mining industry not to take “no for an answer” as she becomes the first female dragline trainee operator at the Saraji coal mine in central Queensland.

Peabody Energy’s Cottage Grove coal mine has passed three years without a reportable incident.

Paul Sowerby and Grant Mack, AllightSykes, Australia, discuss LED mine lighting technology, as used in coal mines.

The board of BHP Billiton will consider a demerger of selected assets when its meets next week.

Choosing the backbone architecture of an underground mine communications systems.

Nine miners have been rescued following a mine collapse in Turkey’s northern Zonguldak province.

Cokal has secured an additional loan of US$5.65 million from hedge fund, Platinum Partners.