When Data Drives, Plans Change
Advanced technologies are changing maintenance planning roles, and revealing the importance of...
Slurry Pumps: Picking the Best Type for the Task
From motor size and pump speed to wear life and operating costs, an imposing array of choices face...
Dedication Runs Deep
Knight Hawk Coal and IWT partnership focuses on productivity, asset management and safety In the...
For Rebuilds, Increasing Options
The continuous miner rebuild market is small and split between a few big, established suppliers,...
Scheduled Maintenance Reduces Plant Downtime
Visual inspections and planned maintenance can extend the life of equipment in the prep plant by...
Data and Design Drive OTR Tire Improvements
Mines can take advantage of improved tire monitoring and management systems, along with new tire...
WVU Switches From Coal to Gas
Vicinity Energy announced this week it has acquired Morgantown Energy Associates, the district energy system serving West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, West Virginia, from an investment affiliate of Starwood Energy...
Ridley Terminal Coal Exports See Huge Increase From April
Coal exports from the Ridley Terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, jumped to 1.16 million metric tons (mt) in May, according the Prince Rupert Port Authority. The combination of metallurgical and thermal coal was an...
Wyoming Gives Ramaco Carbon Approval for Brook Mine
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality awarded Ramaco Carbon approval to mine its private coal/carbon ore assets at the Brook mine, located in a traditional mining area outside Sheridan. This will create Wyoming’s first...
American Resources Reports 2019 Financial Results
American Resources reported its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019, financial results. Chairman and CEO Mark Jensen said, “2019 continued to be a transformational year for American Resources. Notwithstanding...
Foresight Energy Reports Q1 2020 Results
Foresight Energy generated quarterly coal sales revenues of $99.1 million on sales volumes of 3.2 million tons, resulting in net income of $35.7 million and adjusted EBITDA of $12.1 million. Foresight Energy operates three...
Natural Resource Partners: No Profitability Impact Due to COVID
Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NRP) has been operating under remote-work protocols since mid-March due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). All of its employees are healthy, and the partnership is conducting business as usual,...
Alberta Will Ease Restrictions on Coal Mining in Foothills
The Alberta government is changing its coal policies intended to make it easier to develop open-pit mines. “Government is placing a strong focus on creating the necessary conditions for the growth of export coal production,” a...
UK Coal Operator Hargreaves Turns Attention to Land Development
One of Britain’s last remaining coal mine operators will put an end to all mining operations beginning July. Durham-based Hargreaves Services, one of the largest remaining operators of surface mines in the U.K., told investors...
Puck Acquires US Coupling
Puck Enterprises, a liquid transfer equipment manufacturer, completed the acquisition of U.S. Coupling & Accessories Inc., a hose connection and fittings manufacturer. The company said the acquisition provides BullDog Hose...
Hexagon, Proudfoot Form Mining Partnership
Hexagon’s mining division and Proudfoot announced a new partnership that will provide a safety-driven solution for mining companies to accelerate their pursuit of zero-harm. By combining safety technology with a people-centric...
ASGCO Announces Plans to Move to New, Larger Facility
ASGCO Manufacturing Inc. recently announced it will be expanding and moving its headquarters to a newly purchased and soon to be built operation in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in fall 2021. The company currently operates in...
Mapping and Data Collection
The Uinta mapping and data collection software is a powerful hassle-free data collection software built with end-users in mind, according to Juniper. The system offers efficient data capture, allowing surveyors to replace paper...
Padlock Passes ATF Test
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has recognized ABLOY USA’s high security PL340 padlock for meeting the regulations as a locking device for securing explosives magazines. Only padlocks that are...
Drive Systems
NORD’s new condition monitoring solution records drive and status data periodically or continuously to optimize the operational safety and efficiency of machines and plants. Currently, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS is extending the...
BlackRock Shareholders Send a Clear Message
Earlier this year, Larry Fink said BlackRock would sell its coal investments. He admonished executives who refused to disclose their climate risks and said public companies must serve all stakeholders, not just shareholders....
COVID-19 Disrupts Energy Markets
When this year began, coal operators knew they would be facing a challenging market. Low natural gas prices and a shrinking thermal market were already weighing heavy on everyone’s minds when the coronavirus (COVID-19) dealt a...
Tension Technology Keeps Tabs on Bolted Joints
Correct tension within critical bolted connections is linked to safety, performance and maximum uptime. Valley Forge & Bolt said it is shifting the paradigm with SPC4 Load-Indicating Technology that makes it possible to...
Remote Cellular Transmitter Uses Latest LTE Technology
SignalFire Wireless Telemetry expanded its wireless IoT product offering with Ranger, a cellular transmitter that utilizes the latest LTE CAT M1 technology to connect industrial sensors to the cloud for remote monitoring,...
Sensors Look and Listen for Problems
SKF recently introduced a compact vibration and temperature sensor that monitors the condition of rotating parts on heavy machinery. Designed mainly for use as part of a SKF rotating equipment performance (REP) contract or fee...
Peabody Will Temporarily Close Wambo Coal Mine in New South Wales
Peabody will temporarily close its 2.5-million-metric-ton-per-year (mtpy) Wambo underground thermal and semi-soft coking coal mine in New South Wales in Australia. The firm will stop coal production from the underground mine for...
Colombian Coal Output in Q1 Shrinks by 7%
Coal production in Colombia, the world’s fifth-largest coal exporter, fell 7.2% in the first quarter because of low prices and coronavirus quarantine measures, Reuters reported. The South American country produced 19.4 million...
Teck Proposes Expansion for Fording River
Teck Coal Ltd. (Teck) proposed to extend the lifespan of its Fording River Operations, an existing coal mine near Elkford, British Columbia, by expanding mining to Castle Mountain (referred to as the Castle Project). This would...
Ramaco Forms Coal-to-Products Partnership
Ramaco Carbon has entered into a partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the nation’s largest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) science and energy laboratory, to explore innovations for the conversion of coal to...
National Carbon Capture Center: Validating Energy Innovations From Across The Globe
As a testbed for new innovations on the road to commercialization, the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) has proved vital to the National Energy Technology Lab’s (NETL) work in developing technologies that lower carbon...
Anderson Shares NETL’s Decarbonization Work at MIT Energy Initiative
National Energy Technology Lab Director Brian Anderson recently shared the lab’s contributions in addressing America’s long-term energy challenges while retaining environmental integrity at a gathering of the Massachusetts...
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...
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...
Don’t Look Now, the Baseload Retirement Crisis is Picking up Steam
In 2018, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), the organization that oversees the reliability on the North American electric grid, warned of the threat of accelerating losses of baseload sources of power. At the...
Don’t Let Dispatchable Fuel Diversity Slip Away
Row after row of drilling rigs and frack trucks now sit idle in parking lots across oil country. Drilling in U.S. oil and natural gas fields has come to a screeching halt. It’s a scene and reality that not only has ramifications...
Husch Blackwell
Mark Savit has left his position as senior counsel at law firm Husch Blackwell to focus on his role as CEO at Predictive Compliance.
Valley Forge & Bolt
Valley Forge & Bolt welcomed Rick Bailey as chief metallurgist. Throughout his more than four-decade career, he specialized in steel. Bailey began his career with U.S. Steel and transitioned to the fastener side of the steel...
COVID-19 Mine Worker Protection Act: Unnecessary, Ill-advised, Counterproductive
Mining did not stop for the global pandemic. Mine operators, miners and other stakeholders took immediate action to mitigate the risk to miners’ health posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) and kept working. So far, those efforts...
Trump Admin Finalizes Navigable Waters Protection Rule
In April, the President Donald Trump administration took the second of a two-step act to unmuddy the waters with a new rule defining the scope and reach of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS). This act reversed the former...
