Mining

The US MSHA has released new rules for reducing miners’ exposure to coal dust in underground and opencast coal mines.

OKD has signed a deal with the Czech government to continue operations at its Paskov hard coking coal mine in the Ostrava region.

Prairie has confirmed that the geology of the Lublin coal project in Poland could use modern mining methods to reduce operating costs.

How lubrication can help to solve some of the operational challenges facing today’s mining industry.

Current and future trends in coal mine water management.

Anglo American has selected GE’s ABMet technology to remove nitrate and selenium from wastewater discharge at its coal mine in B.C.

Walter Energy has announced that it will begin idling its Canadian operations in April 2014, two coal mines in British Columbia.

Hexagon, has entered into an agreement to acquire Mintec Inc, a resource modelling, optimisation, mine planning and scheduling software developer.

Bathurst Resources has announced a capital raising plan to raise up to AU$ 6.87 million in a discounted share placement.

The UK government’s refusal to fund a coal rescue plan will cost jobs and force the country to rely on overseas energy suppliers.

Viking Ashanti is moving closer to a takeover of Auminco that could see the company become a producer of thermal coal within 12-18 months.

Altra Industrial Motion Corp. has been named in ‘Forbes America’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies’.

Atlas Copco will move the operations of two of its mining equipment production facilities in Sweden to its competence centre in Örebro.

The Land Court of Queensland has granted conditional clearance to GVK’s Alpha Coal Mine project.

Rio Tinto has lost a court appeal to expand its Warkworth open-cut coal mine, near Bulga, in New South Wales.