
Anglo’s Grasstree achieves national record for underground coal production
Anglo American’s Grasstree longwall coal mine obtains a new highest record for Australian underground coal production through reaching 10 million t of ROM coal in 2015.
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Anglo American’s Grasstree longwall coal mine obtains a new highest record for Australian underground coal production through reaching 10 million t of ROM coal in 2015.

Southern Generation Technologies signs a letter of intent with Alps Energy and Kellogg, Brown & Root LLC to evaluate the deployment of its coal gasification technology at the new 1000 MW Alps Energy power plant in South Korea.

Average coal demand growth will total just 0.8% to 2020 as Chinese demand remains soft and environmental policies tighten, according to a new report from the IEA.

Westmoreland Coal Co. has extended its long-term coal supply agreement with Saskatchewan Power Corp. from the Poplar River mine.

The average scrapping age for dry bulk carriers has dropped in recent years on the back of supply in the fleet and Chinese-government incentives to scrap ships.

Coal of Africa’s proposed takeover of Universal Coal has been approved by Competition Commission South Africa.

Pennsylvania anthracite producer, Atlantic Coal, has suspended its AIM listing in order to pursue the acquisition of a larger rival.

Stanmore Coal is to restart metallurgical coal production at Isaac Plains after buying the mine from Vale and Sumitomo Corp. in August.

Loesche to resell four coal mills, type LM 20.2D and LM 19.2D, from Electrabel Belgium’s coal-fired power plant in Belgium, which decommissioned in 2014.

Wongawilli Colliery, the shuttered New South Wales coal mine, will restart mining operations in early 2016.

The US National Mining Association has indicated Paris climate agreement would lead to larger bills for US consumers. It emphasised developing technology for clean coal is a better way to address climate change.

MineSight schedule optimizer now features block model scheduling following the release of MSSO Version 9.3 by Hexagon Mining.