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Coal Production

Contango Installs Weighbridge at Muchesu Coal Project

Contango Holdings Plc has confirmed that the installation of the weighbridge at the Muchesu Coal Project has been completed and is now fully operational.The com…

Thermal Coal

China Has Approved More Than 50 Gigawatts of New Coal Power

China’s coal output increased 9% to 4.5 billion tons last year.China approved more than 50 gigawatts of new coal power in the first half of 2023.The globa…

Thermal Coal

4 RER Power Plants Will Enter Commercial Operation Between 2023 and 2027

This Minem release was published using machine translation.The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) reported that there are currently 4 renewable energy power p…

Coal Production

Turkey Approves New Coal Mining to Feed Power Plants

Police used water cannon and teargas against local people and environmental activists who protested against the destruction of the Akbelen forest in Turkey&rsqu…

Thermal Coal

TAKRAF Celebrates Delkor Coal Tailings Thickener Success

TAKRAF Australia has supplied, delivered, and commissioned a 30 m diameter DELKOR tailings thickener for the Moolarben coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP…

Coal Production

India's Hindalco, Nlc Among Those to Operate Six Coal Mines

India's NLC India Ltd (NLCI.NS) and Hindalco Industries Ltd(HALC.NS) are among the companies that will be operating six coal mines that were put up for auct…

Thermal Plant

New Coal-Fired Power Plants in the Global South Are Often Driven by the Desire for New Markets

The climate crisis involves capital flows: according to the Paris Climate Agreement they must be made "consistent with a pathway toward low greenhouse gas emiss…

Thermal Coal

Boston Mayor Bans Fossil Fuels in New City-Owned Building Construction

In the latest push for her Green New Deal, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu signed an executive order that prohibits city-owned buildings from being constructed or reno…

Energy Storage Project

Engineers Create an Energy-Storing Supercapacitor From Ancient Materials

Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-co…

Wind Farm

China's Installed Capacity of Renewable Energy Hits 1.32 Bln KW

China’s installed capacity of renewable energy hit 1.32 billion kilowatts by the end of June, exceeding the coal-fired power generating capacity, accordin…

Coal Production

BHP Expects Indian Steelmaking Boom to Drive Its Coal Business, Financial Times Reports

A small toy figure and mineral imitation are seen in front of the BHP logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationBHP Grou…

Coal Production

Iran Holds 1.5 Billion Tons of Coal Reserves

TEHRAN – The secretary of Iran Coal Association has said the country holds 1.5 billion tons of definite coal reserves which is enough to meet the country&…

Coal Trade

Global Coal Demand Set to Remain at Record Levels in 2023

Global coal consumption climbed to a new all-time high in 2022 and will stay near that record level this year as strong growth in Asia for both power generation…

Thermal Coal

Nevada Utility to Convert Last Coal-Fired Plant to Natural Gas

Image by Peter H from PixabayIn the US, Nevada’s largest utility plans to retire its last coal-fired plant by the end of 2025 and convert it to run on nat…

Coal Production

Coal Companies Announce Strong Profit Results in Q2

A coal mine in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Photo courtesy of VinacominVietnamese coal enterprises prospered in the second quarter due to the high deman…