Australia coal news

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”.

Mastermyne Group awarded labour and services contract at South32’s Appin metallurgical coal mine in Australia.

Following media reports, Wesfarmers has confirmed that it is looking into the sale of its Curragh and Bengalla coal mines.