Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Weak prices, increasing costs and historic flooding force Powder River Basin ops into survival...
Cutting the Cord
Underground communications infrastructure solutions suppliers perfect technologies that eliminate...
The Value of Data Collaboration
Gaining new perspectives at surface mining operations could drive sustainable improvement When it...
Central Appalachian Coal Operators Rebuild
An operator trams a continuous miner toward the face. Following a period where demand destruction...
Railroads: Exports Increase in ‘18, Flatten in Early ‘19
Reports from the biggest railways in the U.S. state exports have mostly offset the growing decline...
Numbers Are Steady for This Year’s Bluefield Coal Show
by jennifer jensen, associate editor This year marks the 23rd year of the Bluefield Coal Show...
CCTI Builds ‘Second-Generation’ Test Facility in Wyoming
Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTI) is assembling a test facility near Fort Union, Wyoming, USA. CCTI uses technology to convert run of mine coal into a cleaner-burning and more efficient stabilized and dust-free fuel source....
Blackhawk Mining Closes 3 Mines, 2 Prep Plants in West Virginia
Blackhawk Mining LLC and its subsidiaries have idled three underground coal mines and two preparation plants in Logan and Mingo counties, West Virginia, due to weak global coal markets and drop in prices. The operations included...
CONSOL Energy Receives CORESafety Certification
The National Mining Association (NMA) recognized CONSOL Energy Inc. for becoming certified under its CORESafety initiative. CONSOL is the 10th mining company to be fully certified utilizing the framework, which aims for zero...
Warrior Met Reports Record Coal Sales
Alabama-based Warrior Met Coal produced and sold 2.2 million tons of met coal in the second quarter of 2019. That was an increase of 13.8% in production compared to the second quarter of 2018. The quarterly sales figure was also...
Contura Announces Q2 Results
Contura reported net income from continuing operations of $24.3 million for the second quarter of 2019. In the first quarter of 2019, the company had net income from continuing operations of $8 million. The company reported a...
Enchant Will Acquire 95% Interest in San Juan Generating Station
Farmington, New Mexico, and Enchant Energy Corp. have signed an agreement for the company to purchase a 95% interest in the 847-megawatt San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) from the participants exiting in 2022. The city will...
Anglo Approves Development of Aquila Coal Mine
Anglo American has approved the development of the Aquila project in central Queensland’s Bowen Basin, which will become one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world, according to the company. With an...
Indian Coal Imports Increase 41%
by ajoy k. das Indian coal imports during the first quarter of the current fiscal year (April-June) have been pegged at 18.45 million metric tons (mt), up 41% over the corresponding period of the previous year, according to data...
thyssenkrupp Revamps Russian Seaport
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions will supply a new coal handling system to the State Transport Leasing Co. (STLC) in Russia. The system will be the centerpiece of a new terminal for coal exports in the port of Lavna near...
Matrix Launches Analytics Group
Matrix Design Group is opening a new division, Matrix Analytics Group, which will be part of the company’s South African entity in Johannesburg, operating in both the U.S. and Africa. The analy- tics group will offer industry...
Vectren Awards Beumer Ash Pipe Conveyor Project
Beumer has been selected to provide design/build services for a new recycled ash pipe conveyor system at the A.B. Brown Generating Station located near Mount Vernon, Indiana, which is owned by Vectren. The project is expected to...
Air Impact Tools
Hy-Tech Engineered Solutions recently introduced the ATP Magnum Force line of industrial air impact tools, featuring high-torque outputs and power-to-weight ratios in 3/4-, 1-, and 1-1/2-in. drive classes. The new line is...
Remote-controlled Jack for Haulers
Specialized Maintenance Equipment introduced the Titan220e battery-powered truck jacking system. The system allows a user to remote control the positioning of the jack. The latest hydraulic and electronic technology is used to...
B&W Awarded Patent for Coal Ash Conveyor
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W) has been awarded a United States patent for a Submerged Grind Conveyor (SGC) system, a cost-effective coal ash conveyor system that enables utilities to reduce water usage and their...
Expanding Coal Age’s Reach
Since we formed Mining Media International Inc. more than two years ago and purchased Coal Age as well as Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ), we have been on a mission to grow circulation. Today, I’m happy to report...
The Heart of Appalachia
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That’s what happened when an accident took the life of Chris Cline and the other passengers on board his helicopter. He, his daughter and his and her friends perished on the Fourth of...
Stainless Steel Belt Cleaner Reduces TCO
A new, secondary conveyor-belt cleaner has been engineered specifically for challenging applications where traditional designs fail to deliver the necessary performance or wear life. The CleanScrape Secondary Cleaner (CS2) from...
Regular Inspections Prevent Magnetite Losses
by steve fiscor, editor-in-chief The only thing worse than losing magnetite is losing clean coal. Both are unnecessary expenses that can be prevented with regular inspection and maintenance. Drain-and-rinse screens play a...
Genrec Repairs Dragline Boom in South Africa
Genrec Engineering demonstrated the depth and extent of its skills and capabilities in steel fabrication and engineering when it successfully repaired a damaged dragline boom in record time for one of South Africa’s leading coal...
Contura Subsidiary Receives National Reclamation Award
Contura Energy announced that one of its affiliate operations, Paramont Contura LLC’s 88 Strip surface mine, earned the 2019 Outstanding Reclamation Award in the coal category given by the National Association of State Land...
Coal Age Presents Longwall USA 2019 Top Performers Award
Last month at the Longwall USA Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Coal Age presented the Top Performer Awards to four U.S. longwall mines. The awards winners were selected based on the mine’s overall safety...
Energy Policy Disconnect Grows Wider
by conor bernstein Lost in the noise of what candidates and pundits want for the nation’s energy future is what Americans want. While the rollout of candidates’ energy plans has turned into a game of one-upmanship on who can ban...
The Reliability Challenge Goes From Bad to Worse
by conor bernstein The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) analyzes the reliability of our electricity supply. So, it’s with good reason that eyebrows were raised when NERC CEO Jim Robb told the Federal Energy...
Werner Mueller, former German minister of economics and president of the RAG trust
In the area of the Ruhr valley, former German minister of economics and president of the RAG trust, Werner Mueller has left behind a century of performance. He passed away on July 15. From 1998 to 2002, Mueller was an...
Double Coin and CMA
Double Coin and CMA announced the addition of Anthony Cresta as the company’s new product manager. img: Anthony Cresta
Humpty Dumpty and Zombie Apocalypse: Should Courts Defer to MSHA?
by mark savit and erik dullea What does the law have to do with Humpty Dumpty or the zombie apocalypse? The answer lies in a recent Supreme Court decision that could change the way courts decide what regulations really mean. The...
Interference Claims: 1 Step Back, 1 Step Forward?
by erik dullea and mark savit In March 2018, this column discussed discrimination and interference under section 105(c), and two important cases that considered alternative tests to prove an interference claim — Franks v....
