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Alabama Steel Industry and Coal Mine Exploration Review and Future
As steelmakers cut production, and coal stockpiles increase, Alabama miners are nervous about the future.
Two years ago, Alabama’s coal mining boomed. Industries worldwide gobbled up coal as quickly as they could get it.
ActiveMine Received Installation Develop Underground Coal Mine Exploration in Kentucky
Active Control Technology Inc. today announced that a leading coal mining company has selected ActiveMine(TM) for the first of two underground coal mines in Kentucky.
Mining Exploration Technology Development : Coal Gasification Demonstration Project
Alberta will be the site of a $30-million demonstration project aimed at unlocking the clean energy potential of the province’s vast coal reserves.
New Mine Exploration Regulation Reduce Accident Chances
It’s unfortunate that it took a series of major mine acci dents this decade to push the federal and state governments to update underground safety regulations.
Coal India Ltd. Receives 17 Bidding For Coal Mining Exploration
17 companies from national and international, has distillation of coal mining exploration by 18 coal-mines owned by Coal India Ltd ( CIL).
“The proposals are now being evaluated by the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI)” a source close to the development told media..
The bidders are Xindia Steels, Walter Southeast Asia, Afcon Infrastructure, Essel Mining [...]
Linc Energy To Sell Teresa Coal Mine Exploration Permit
Australian innovative energy company Linc Energy Ltd. announced late Thursday that it has agreed to sell its Teresa coal exploration permits to China-based Xinwen Mining Group for A$1.5 billion. The company had revealed in July that it intends to sell the Teresa coal deposits. Following the announcement, the Linc Energy stock is climbing nearly 41% [...]
Farmer Blockade Of BHP Billiton Coal Mine Exploration at Liverpool Plains
In a shareholders’ report to be published today, the company says environmental concerns are the main reason for narrowing its search to ridge country surrounding the Liverpool Plains.
The news is scant comfort to the farmers whose land is still being targeted for coal mining against their will.
“With the effect of the subsidence from longwall coal [...]
Increase Inspections Mine Safety For Mining Exploration Activity
Forty-seven miners were killed on the job in 2006, one of the deadliest for miners in more than a decade. Six miners and three attempting rescues also died in 2007 at the Utah Crandall Canyon mine, while 15 mining fatalities have been reported nationwide since Jan. 1.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration has been beefing [...]
North Dakota’s mineral resource leader gives estimate of oil in Bakken formation
North Dakota’s own estimate of how much oil can be gotten economically, using current technology, from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin is slightly above or below 2.1 billion barrels, Lynn Helms reported this morning at a conference here.
Helms, director of the state’s department of mineral resources, said that estimate is based on a [...]
