Mining

Cloud Peak Energy’s Antelope Mine recognised for reclamation achievements.

Tanzania-focused mineral exploration and development company, Kibo Mining, has appointed Minxcon Projects to conduct a definitive mining feasibility study on the Rukwa Coal-to-Power project.

Datong Coal Mine Group has placed an order for five Eickhoff SL 500 shearer loaders.

Recent changes to Mongolia’s mining law will help to boost foreign investment in the country’s resource exploration industry.

Arch Coal has announced it will idle its Cumberland River metallurgical coal mine with the loss of 213 jobs.

Bathurst Resources Ltd announces that activities have begun at the company’s Escarpment coal mine in New Zealand.

Colombian government orders Glencore Xstrata subsidiary to merge operations at one of its coal mines.

Anglo American’s Australian and Canadian metallurgical coal production grew strongly in Q2 but it was a more mixed performance from the company’s thermal coal assets.

Planning permission secured for a new opencast coal mine in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Canadian coal miner, Corsa Coal, has agreed to buy PBS Coals from Russian steelmaker, Severstal.

Australian coal mines move from development to production to boost output 9% in FY2012/13, says the Bureau of Resource and Energy Economics.

How new innovations in oxygen sensing are improving the reliability of gas detectors in underground mines, while reducing costs.

Cloud Peak Energy’s Cordero Rojo coal mine has won the Governor’s Summit Safety Award in the large mine category.

How the mining industry can turn “do more with less” from an empty slogan to an actual business strategy.

Collision avoidance is one of the top areas for planned technology investment in Australian mining in the next two years, finds new report by Timetric.