Category: Breaking news

In their first earnings call as co-CEOs for Contura Energy, Andy Eidson and Mark Manno, discussed results that were positive, but did not meet expectations. During the quarter, the company produced 6 million tons, a...

Pembroke Resources reported that its Olive Downs coking coal project has been approved by Queensland’s coordinator general and is expected to begin producing next year. Located 40 kilometers (km) southeast of Moranbah in...

Cloud Peak Energy announced on May 10 it filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The company intends to continue a marketing process for all of its assets and expects...

A civil lawsuit has been filed against 23 coal companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and operating in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky, which seeks more than $4.7 million in unpaid penalties...

CONSOL Energy Inc. has commenced the development of a new low-vol metallurgical coal mining operation in Wyoming County, West Virginia, with an anticipated completion date of 2021. The Itmann mine, the company’s first major...

Paringa Resources Ltd. has delivered first coal from the Poplar Grove operation in western Kentucky. A maiden shipment of approximately 1,500 tons was loaded into barges at Paringa’s Ainsworth Dock on the Green River to...

Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTC), a leading clean-energy company utilizing patented and proven technology (Pristine) to convert run of mine coal into a cleaner-burning and more efficient stabilized solid fuel, announced an...

On April 19, a federal judge ruled that the Department of the Interior (DOI) acted unlawfully when it revoked a moratorium on new coal mining leases on public lands. In 2017, President Donald Trump had ordered then-DOI Secretary...

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has partially approved the proposed expansion of the Rosebud mine, while also partially disapproving acreage where mining could potentially damage groundwater. The mine,...

Big Rivers Electric Corp. (BREC) is soliciting proposals for steam coal and petroleum coke for it’s DB Wilson and RD Green generating stations. BREC wants to procure spot solid steam fuel, commencing on July 1 through...

On Wednesday morning, May 22, Zach Agioutantis, professor, University of Kentucky (UK), will deliver a presentation on the research related to the autonomous shuttle car at the Longwall USA Conference & Exhibition...

Sasol officially opened a new colliery last week in Mpumalanga, South Africa, where it beneficiates coal into high-value fuel and chemical products at world scale. Meaning “success” in Nguni, Impumelelo is one of three...