Mining

August 2011: Kay Sever explains how unresolved trust issues can lead to poor execution of improvement programmes at al levels of the company.

Joy Global Inc. and International Mining Machinery Holdings Ltd (IMM) have jointly announced that TJCC Holdings Ltd (TJCC) and Joy have entered into a share purchase agreement, in which TJCC has conditionally agreed to sell 534.8 million shares of IMM to Joy.

July 2011: Kay Sever outlines how mine and plant superintendents are 'caught in the middle'. Expectations from above put all the responsibility for equipment performance and cost control on their shoulders.

Coal is surging ahead with the recovering economy, but many challenges lie ahead. Gordon cope examines how prospects for US coal are looking up.

Sable Mining Africa Ltd has acquired a 49% interest in Liberation Mining (Pvt) Ltd, holder of the 16,545 ha. Special Grant 4977 which covers the Lubimbi coal project in the Gwaai area of the Kariba coal basin in Zimbabwe.

Eight miners trapped underground for over seven hours have been freed in western Colombia.

An underground coal mine has reopened in Alabama after ceasing operations at the end of April due to extreme weather in the southern US.

Sable Mining Africa Ltd has published a bankable feasibility study (BFS) on Delta Mining Consolidated Ltd’s (DMC) Rietkuil coal project in South Africa.

BP confirmed today that it has signed four new coalbed methane (CBM) production sharing contracts (PSCs) in the Barito basin of South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

BHP Billiton has approved three key met coal projects in the Bowen casin in central Queensland, Australia.

The number of dead from a collapsed mine in southwest Pakistan has risen to 45, according to officials.

China has increased its total production for the first two months of the year by 13.5%.

Peabody Energy has announced that the Mongolian Government has placed the company in the top tier of the short list of companies that pre-qualify to invest and cooperate in development of the Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit.

The US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Justice Department have announced that Arch Coal Inc. has agreed to pay a US$ 4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Xstrata has declared force majeure at its Ulan mine in New South Wales, Australia. Production at the mine has been forced to halt due to heavy rain.