Special reports

Queensland students have had the opportunity to get hands-on experience of the high-level science, technology engineering and maths (STEM) skills that will be needed for the jobs of the future.

Stabilisation on the coking coal and coke market allows Jastrzebska Spólka Weglowa (JSW) to continue strategic investment projects. These include modernisation of coal preparation plants and construction of new mining levels.

BUMI Resources, through its subsidiary Arutmin Indonesia (Arutmin), has carried out several social and environmental responsibility programmes in the local community of its Kintap site in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

More than 300 students from 13 schools across Central Queensland recently took part in the Moranbah science and engineering ‘Challenge’ and ‘Discovery’ days to inspire them to consider a future career in STEM.

Experts of the VIII Global Energy Prize Summit discussed what investments and political action are required to usher in ‘a new technological cycle’.

Julien Vincent and Elana Sulakshana from Unfriend Coal Campaign discuss the insurance campaign against the Adani Carmichael coal mine.

Ncondezi Energy Ltd. has announced the receipt of an exercise notice in relation to 500 000 warrants.

Dr.rer.sos. Natalia Markova, University of St. Gallen, speaks to World Coal magazine about the Russian coal industry and, in particular, SUEK.

JRL Energy, Inc. closed on a second United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) backed credit facility.

Ruberg, CIO with Teck since 2006, has joined GMG to help shape strategy.

According to the report, since 2013 coal exit announcements have occurred at a rate of over one per month from globally significant banks and insurers holding more than US$10 billion worth of assets under management.

Brian Anderson delivered the 2019 Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Distinguished Lecture Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, last week.

The closure has been recognised by the Missouri Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies.

Yesterday the Indian Navy sent five more unmanned remotely operated vehicles down nearby mines in Maghalaya to the one where 15 miners have been trapped for almost a month to ascertain visibility at the bottom of the shaft.

In World Coal’s November/December issue, Claudia Cronenbold, Vice Chair, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Energy Council, explains coal’s strength in the energy matrixes of Central and South America.