
Contura Energy and Alpha Natural Resources agree to merge
On 30 April 2018, Contura Energy and Alpha Resources signed a merger agreement enabling a strengthened US metallurgical coal platform.
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On 30 April 2018, Contura Energy and Alpha Resources signed a merger agreement enabling a strengthened US metallurgical coal platform.

Gippsland Tech School students have been coming up with ideas about how the Hazelwood coal mine should look after rehabilitation operations.

Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group will be demonstrating its strengths and ingenuity for servicing both underground and opencast mine operations at Electra Mining Africa 2018.

Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. confirms Wyoming as the permanent location for their test facility.

Eskom introduces measures that are to address the current coal shortages at a number of its coal-fired power plants.

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Alinta Energy Pty Limited bid for AGL Energy Limited’s Liddell coal-fired power plant.

“The decision by Aurizon to refer the Queensland Competition Authority’s draft future management arrangements for the Central Queensland Coal Network to the Supreme Court highlighted the need for Aurizon to resume normal maintenance practices.”

World Coal Association welcomes the addition of SUEK to its membership.

The National Mining Association has urged for a decisive repeal of the costly Clean Power Plan.

Arch Coal publishes the results for the first quarter of 2018 which shows a significant rise in net income for the first quarter of 2018 compared with the same period the previous year.

Peabody Energy posted revenues of US$1.46 billion, income from continuing operations, net of income taxes of US$208.3 million, net income attributable to common stockholders of US$106.6 million, diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of US$0.83 and Adjusted EBITDA of US$363.9 million.

Shareholders were informed that the company’s EBITDA guidance to 2018 has been revised from US$1.3-1.5 billion to US$1.1-1.3 billion.