Mining

Aviva announces acquisition of prospecting license, as sale of Mmamantswe coal project makes progress.

Australian company signs binding term sheet with Regius Coal, will acquire interest in licenses located in Zambezi basin.

Continental Coal’s Vlakvarkfontein coal mine is set to achieve its 3rd year of record thermal coal production.

Australian coal company, New Age Exploration, announce positive test results at the company’s flagship project.

Cloud Peak Energy’s Antelope coal mine has won this year’s State of Wyoming Reclamation Award for restoring areas of cheatgrass-dominated land.

Thunder Basin Coal Company mine receives the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute’s 2013 safety award.

US coal miner, Arch Coal, has sold its Canyon Fuel Co. assets in Utah to Bowie Resources for US 435 million.

Biggest quarterly decline in coal prices in a year force mining companies to look to cut costs.

Linc Energy is in early talks to by a Queensland coal mine from BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance.

Union claim lifetime benefits for mineworkers, established in 1946, are under threat.

US Bureau of Indian Affaird approves option to lease and exploration agreements between Cloud Peak Energy subsidiary and Crow Tribe of Indians.

Coalspur Mine’s board of directors approves C$ 458 million development of Vista Coal project.

Coal India Ltd. hopes to acquire a majority stake in two undisclosed Australian mining companies for a combined total of US$ 4 billion.

Loren Padleford discusses ways of identifying risk connections, which go beyond current approaches to risk management.

How a mine operating system (MOS) can help tackle the challenges of declining margins, rising costs and a lack of skilled workers in the mining industry.