Special reports

Trolex looks at the uptake of methane monitoring and recovery systems in underground coal mines.

In the first of two articles, Santu Tiwari and Deepak Kumar, GlobalData, UK, provide an insight into the Russian coal industry.

Mike Maddison, Deloitte, UK, discusses the use of cyber security technologies in the mining sector.

AMC Consultants offer insights into how mining companies can control their costs and improve their bottom line.

Ian Barnes, IEA Clean Coal Centre, discusses recent operating experience and improvement of commercial IGCC.

Nikki Fisher, Anglo American Thermal Coal, explains why the coal industry must take bold steps toward developing and proving clean coal technology.

In the second of two articles, Shivanshu Agnihotri, GlobalData, explains why coal retains top spot when it comes to powering the Asia-Pacific region.

In the first of two articles, Shivanshu Agnihotri, GlobalData, explains why coal retains top spot when it comes to powering the Asia-Pacific region.

IEA Clean Coal Centre report explains the incentives for improving efficiency at coal-fired power plants.

The International Energy Agency has released a technology roadmap for the development of carbon capture and storage.

A new report of the IEA Clean Coal Centre discusses developments in circulating fluidised bed combustion.

Gregory Boyce, chairman and CEO of Peabody Energy, has commended new measures to improve urban air quality in China, while maintaining its use of coal to power economic development.

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

The Energy Information Administration has reported record monthly US coal exports in March as exports remains on track to break 100 million t for the third year running.

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