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Mayfly To Be Protected Habitat at Expense of Coal Mining Exploration in US Mountaintops Coal Mine
Mayflies may seal the fate of mountaintop mining in the Appalachian hills of the eastern U.S.
Companies such as Massey Energy Co. that mine coal there by stripping mountain peaks and dumping debris in streams are being asked by the Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to safeguard the mayfly, one of the oldest winged [...]
Antioquia Gold Drilling Colombian Assets
Colombia has emerged as a prolific source of new gold deposits during the last several years, and Antioquia Gold Inc. is the latest TSX Venture listed company to begin exploration there. Antioquia controls a 100% interest in 6 mining concessions covering a total of 279 hectares (Guayabito) and a 90% interest in 2 additional [...]
China’s Mining Companies Are Planning A Giant Mining Exploration Targets
China mining sector development plan for the exploration of mining potential in the country. The giant mining exploration plan will be carried out by China’s own mining company. Mining exploration plan has been done by taking over coal mining exploration activities undertaken by the mining company Felix Resources.
Alpha Gets Low-Cost Wyoming Coal With Foundation Buy
Alpha Natural Resources Inc.’s $2 billion acquisition of Foundation Coal Holdings Inc. gives the company access to low-cost Wyoming surface mines as stricter regulation makes work in Appalachia more costly.
Pike River Coal Company Reported Coking Coal and Coal Mine Production To March 31, 2009
Pike River Coal Limited has made good progress with restoring ventilation to its hard coking coal mine following a rockfall in February 2009. Coal production with one of the continuous miner machines is to recommence at the start of May 2009, once reaming and lining of a 600mm diameter ’slimline’ hole is completed.
Sasol Completed To Develop Basic Engineering Design Coal Mining an Surface Gasification Plant in Secunda
Coal-to-liquids (CTL) giant Sasol has completed basic engineering designs for a demonstration-scale underground coal gasification plant to be built on an otherwise stranded deep coal seam near its CTL plant in Secunda.
British Coal Mining Sector Plans Reopen and Increase Coal Mining Production
How do you manage a dying industry that suddenly gets a new lease of life? That is the question facing the British coal sector. Some 25 years since the start of the national miners’ strike began a decade-long spate of closures,
National Coal Corp. Reported Finance and Coal Mine Exploration and Production 4Q Year End 2008 Result
National Coal Corp., a Central and Southern Appalachian coal producer, reports that for the year ended December 31, 2008, it achieved total revenues of $132.6 million based primarily on the sale of 2.0 million tons of coal.
Australian Coal Mining Development Company, CoAL Expands Mooiplaats Coal Mine Project
Australian coal development company Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) has started additional production-related drilling, as well as drilling to identify the site for the second decline shaft, on the farms neighbouring the company’s Mooiplaats coal project, in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.
