Australia coal news

Daniel Gall has been appointed Chief Finance Officer of ASX-listed coal company, Baralaba Coal.

A coal shiploader at Queensland Bulk Handling, a coal export terminal owned by New Hope Group, has been recommissioned after suffering significant damage in a storm last month.

Azad Bhura has resigned as director of Wollongong Coal for unspecified personal reasons.

TerraCom has finalised an AUS$ million placement to new and existing institutions and sophisticated investors.

In the December issue of World Coal, Steve Doyle, President of BtuBaron LLC, provided the consultancy’s half-time report on coal prices.

Adani will locate the project centres for its huge Carmichael coal project in regional Queensland towns.

The New South Wales Planning Asseement Commission has approved an application to relocated an transmission line to allow the continuation of mining at Glendell mine.

Glencore has bought out its joint venture partners at the Newlands and Collinsville coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

The US Securities Exchange Commission is investigating Rio’s US$3 billion writedown of Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique.

The Minerals Council of Australia has called the Victorian state ban on coalbed methane and other unconventional gas development a “regressive step”.