Identifying and Addressing Conveyor Idler Issues
Proper tracking reduces the risks associated with spillage by todd swinderman, p.e. On any belt...
Tech Advances Aim to Tame the Risky Business of Slope Stability
Pit slope design has always been a quintessential risk-vs.-reward endeavor. The latest...
Top Customizable Panels Have More Open Area
The latest coal dewatering screen panel innovations give customers more options and better results...
U.S. Prep Plant: Activity Increases in West Virginia
Looking to take advantage of a tight market for metallurgical coal, coal operators invest in more...
Networks, Tracking Solutions Offer Situational Awareness
Real-time information on personnel or asset location, or from equipment at the face, supports...
Becker to Build Roof Supports in the U.S.
Bristol, Virginia-based Becker Global America, the largest longwall electrics provider, recently...
Hexagon Launches New Website, Experience
Hexagon’s Mining division launched the Life-of-Mine Experience, allowing website visitors to embark on their own life-of-mine journey to see how data from connected mining workflows maximize the value of safety, sustainability...
Winners Announced for the 2022 NIOSH Mine Safety and Health Technology Innovations Awards
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Program, in conjunction with the Essential Minerals Association, the National Mining Association, and the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association,...
Ramaco Reports Impressive Numbers
In its third-quarter earnings release, Ramaco Resources said its overall production for the quarter was 658,000 tons, up 19% from the same period of 2021. The Elk Creek complex produced 511,000 tons. Production from the Berwind...
The End of an Era at San Juan
Westmoreland San Juan Mining LLC announced on September 13 that its underground crews mined the last ton of coal destined for the San Juan Generating Station (SJCS) located in San Juan County, New Mexico. Beginning as a surface...
Suncoke Reports Market Improvement
In its second quarter earnings statement, Suncoke Energy, Inc. reported continued strong performance at its domestic coke and logistics segments. “Although our coke production was impacted due to planned outages, it was more...
Methane Ignition Occurs at Ramaco Resources’ Berwind Mine
On July 10, Ramaco Resources Inc. reported a material methane ignition at its Berwind mining complex in Berwind, West Virginia. Currently, the cause of the ignition is unknown. The company, in conjunction with the appropriate...
RWE Brings Three Lignite Units Online in Germany
RWE Power reported that three lignite-fired power plants that were previously placed on standby would be brought online during October. The German government recently issued an ordinance within the framework of the German Act on...
India’s Tata Steel Looks to Replace Russian Imports
Tata Steel is ramping up purchases of Australian and North American coal after halting imports from Russia, according to Nikkei Asia. The Indian steelmaker said it usually imports 3 million mt/y from Russia, which accounted for...
Orica Successfully Trials New Blasting System at Blair Athol
Orica’s WebGen 200 technology continues its successful entry into the high-volume surface mining market. It provides for groups of in-hole primers to be wirelessly initiated by a firing command that communicates through hundreds...
Becker to Build Roof Supports in the U.S.
Bristol, Virginia-based Becker Global America, the largest longwall electrics provider, recently...
AspenTech to Acquire Micromine
A global leader in industrial software, AspenTech announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Micromine, a global leader in design and operational management solutions for the mining industry, for $623...
Cat Celebrates 1,000th Motor Grader
In 1995, Caterpillar introduced the Cat 24 Motor Grader specifically designed to build and maintain haul roads at mining sites with ultra-class haul trucks. Now in its third generation, the Cat 24 offers 399- to 518-kW (535- to...
Komatsu Expands Longview Facility
Komatsu reported it is building a significantly expanded office and administration building on its manufacturing campus in Longview, Texas, where the electrical drives for its wheel loaders are made. The company broke ground for...
Ground Force to Acquire TowHaul
Ground Force Worldwide agreed to acquire the assets and operations of TowHaul Corp. Henceforth, TowHaul will be marketed and distributed under the Ground Force portfolio. The acquisition will assist Ground Force in its efforts...
Setting the Record Straight
The Bluefield Coal and Mining Show kicked off like it has so many times before with a keynote breakfast, followed by a ceremonial ribbon cutting. This year differed with fewer exhibitors, despite an improving market, and a...
U.S. Senate Passes Inflation Reduction Act
A cruel irony is that legislation sometimes has the opposite effect of its intention. If that’s the case with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, then taxpayers and businesses alike should brace themselves. Senator Joe Manchin...
Networks, Tracking Solutions Offer Situational Awareness
Real-time information on personnel or asset location, or from equipment at the face, supports...
Floating New Ideas
Flotation might be one of the longest-standing techniques in beneficiation, but it’s certainly not standing still. Today, new cell designs and digitally enabled control and monitoring technologies are not only driving...
What’s Next for Slurry Pumps?
Slurry pumps are the heavyweight contenders of fluid transfer, with the largest models capable of moving thousands of gallons per hour of water/solids mixtures that can be viscous, abrasive, corrosive — or all of the above....
South Africa’s Just Transition
By Gavin du Venage, South African Editor South Africa will push further into renewable energy sources, but it is becoming increasingly clear that coal, the main source of the country’s electricity, is not going away anytime...
Peabody Reports Record Revenue for Q2 2022
Revenue for Peabody Energy increased by more 80% to $1.3 billion compared to the prior year quarter, due to higher realized prices in every segment. “For the first time as a public company, cash exceeds our debt balance,” said...
G7 Will Decarbonize Grid By 2035, Drops 2030 Coal Exit Date
The environment, climate and energy ministers of the Group of Seven western industrialized states (G7) have agreed to largely decarbonize their electricity sectors within 13 years. Following their meeting in Berlin, the...
Innovation Center Opens in Wyoming
Officials gathered for the grand opening of the Wyoming Innovation Center (WyIC) in Campbell County. The 5,500-ft2 facility on 10 acres will be home to companies and researchers developing commodities using coal and coal...
Japan Plans First Carbon Capture, Storage Project
Japanese oil refiner Eneos Holdings and utility J-Power have joined forces to launch the nation’s first permanent carbon capture and storage operation by the end of this decade, the two companies said. The partners have agreed...
Woodmac: Ammonia Co-firing Could Be Worth $100B in 2050
Japan’s power utilities are taking a lead in co-firing ammonia in both coal- and gas-fired power plants. Initial tests have shown encouraging results, and commercial operations are scheduled to start around 2025. South Korea...
WV Coal Hall of Fame Inducts Newest Honorees
The West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame, a joint initiative between the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and the West Virginia Coal Association and housed at the WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources in...
VCEA 2019 Excellence in Mining Awards Presented
A total of 11 awards of excellence were presented to Southwest Virginia coal companies during the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance’s 48th annual Fall Meeting and “Excellence In Mining Awards,” recently at the Russell County...
Cold, Dark and Expensive
Surging energy prices are colliding with renewed grid reliability concerns this winter. The rising price of electricity and the surging price of natural gas is putting new wind in the sails of energy-driven inflation that...
The Next Grid Crisis is in New England
New England recognizes it has a dangerous fuel security problem on its hands. And a telling factor in that crisis is what it doesn’t have: fuel diversity in the form of coal capacity. New England’s overreliance on natural gas, a...
In Remembrance of Frank Calanda, Jr.
Frank Calandra, Jr. (84) passed away on Friday, September 16, 2022. In 1972, Frank and his brother Jack Calandra founded Jennmar Corp. and aggressively began to reshape production and safety methods in underground mining....
Komatsu – Tony Berry
Komatsu announced the passing of our colleague, friend and mentor, Tony Berry, who died on June 15, 2022, following a valiant fight with cancer. Berry began his mining career completing an apprenticeship with British Coal and...
Haul Trucks and Hammers aren’t “Mines”
If a haul truck or a hammer is used for mining or used at a mine, does MSHA have jurisdiction over them forever, wherever they go and however they are used? Put differently, does “jurisdiction follow equipment if it travels away...
MSHA’s New Enhanced Enforcement Program is ‘Something’
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has a new “Enhanced Enforcement Program.” If this is news to you, you’re in good company. MSHA hasn’t done much to publicize it. Word of the program has been circulating...
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