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Coal Mine Producer, Peabody Reported Fourth Quarter Earning 2008
Before market opens on Tuesday, one of the world biggest coal producer, announce reported earning for the fourth quarter and full-year 2008.
China-backed Dehua says Canada lacks a labour pool that is skilled underground
A Chinese-backed company pursuing a coal project in northeastern British Columbia wants to have a mine up and running by 2009 – and proposes to bring as many as 400 workers from China to build it.
Canadian Dehua International Mines Group Inc., a Vancouver-based company whose shareholders include a Chinese steel manufacturer, has filed a [...]
China-backed Dehua says Canada lacks a labour pool that is skilled underground
A Chinese-backed company pursuing a coal project in northeastern British Columbia wants to have a mine up and running by 2009 – and proposes to bring as many as 400 workers from China to build it.
Canadian Dehua International Mines Group Inc., a Vancouver-based company whose shareholders include a Chinese steel manufacturer, has filed a [...]
GLOBAL MINING Risc LLC To Reduce Risk
New York & Lexington, KY Christensen, a capital-markets advisory firm, and Engineering Consulting Services Inc. (ECSI), a multi-disciplinary engineering, mining, and environmental-services consultancy (both with over 25 years in business),recently announced the creation of their joint venture, Global Mining RiSC LLC (“GMR”). This new corporation will be providing integrated, comprehensive risk analysis; safety and training [...]
Seeking a new seal: Coal industry zeros in on way to boost safety
The coal mining industry has high hopes for a new material that may harden underground seals that don’t meet federal strength standards.
Regulators say as many as 13,000 foam block seals in mines across the country don’t meet the new strength requirement the Mine Safety and Health Administration set in July. MSHA upped the strength requirement [...]
Coal states to get cleanup, health funds
President Bush signed legislation Wednesday that gives billions of dollars to coal-producing states to clean up hazardous abandoned coal mines and pay for health care for retired miners.
His signature ends a long fight that has pitted coal-producing states against each other over the best use of funds collected for the nation’s coal mine reclamation program.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY IN MICHIGAN: State will keep relying on coal
Flipping on a light switch is usually an unconscious act for Michiganders. But when the lights don’t go on, which is what happened Aug. 14, 2003, the darkness that ensues can be frightening.
That’s why, for at least the next 24 years, Michigan will maintain its dependence on a centuries-old source of reliable power: coal.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY IN MICHIGAN: State will keep relying on coal
Flipping on a light switch is usually an unconscious act for Michiganders. But when the lights don’t go on, which is what happened Aug. 14, 2003, the darkness that ensues can be frightening.
That’s why, for at least the next 24 years, Michigan will maintain its dependence on a centuries-old source of reliable power: coal.
