The appeal concerned 28 hectares of agricultural land near Clay Cross, an industrial mining town in Derbyshire. The site borders the A61 road to the east, and there is major residential development to the north. The appellant sought permission for a surface coal mining operation that would yield 175,000
The UK has postponed making a decision on allowing the Banks Group to build a new open-cast coal mine in North East England. Northumberland County Council previously agreed last year that the group would be permitted to draw 3 million tonnes of coal through an open cast, also known as a surface
TAIYUAN, March 7 (Xinhua) -- North China's coal-rich Shanxi Province plans to cut 16 million tonnes of backward mining capacity in state-owned coal mines this year. The provincial state-owned assets supervision and administration commission said Wednesday that last year, provincially-owned coal
The move to allow the private sector to mine coal for commercial use will boost both production and mining efficiency. Substitution of imported non-coking coal with domestic production can save about ?,?30,000 crore of coal imports, according to a Crisil estimate. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
Long before North Dakota tapped its oil, there was lignite coal mining.
The British government has delayed a decision on whether to allow a new open pit coal mine in Northumberland, in the country's north east, without elaborating on the reasons that motivated such decision. The county's council granted permission in 2016 to developer The Banks Group to build its Highthorn
While tariffs could increase domestic demand for metallurgical coal -- which is used in the steelmaking process -- most of the market for that fuel is abroad. About 75 percent of the coking coal U.S. miners produced in 2017 was sold internationally, with Brazil, Japan and Ukraine being the biggest buyers,
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the methodology for auction of coal mines for commercial mining. Earlier, the ministry of coal had published a white paper on the policy initiative, which purports to bring in private participation in coal
In the past week, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a methodology to auction coal blocks for commercial mining. In the aftermath of the 2014 Supreme Court rulings that declared as illegal and cancelled 214 coal block allocations made between 1993 and 2010, the Coal Mines (Special
The mining giant has denied any wrongdoing in a similar case brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is seeking fraud charges against Albanese and Elliot, as well as Rio Tinto itself over the same coal deal. At the centre of the US and Australia court cases are assets Rio
Rural Action, an Appalachian Ohio nonprofit, has spent two decades working to clean up a watershed in Southeastern Ohio polluted by old coal mines. Now, the organization and its supporters are fighting the permitting of a new surface mine proposed by Oxford Mining Co. Rural Action, in partnership with
North China's coal-rich Shanxi Province has issued its first mining project license in 13 years following an industry reshuffle to eliminate outdated coal production capacity. The provincial land and resources department said on Thursday that it has given the go-ahead to the Dongda Coal Mine Project
Anglo American (LON:AAL) has completed the sale of three Eskom-tied thermal coal operations in South Africa to Seriti Resources, a group of black-controlled companies for R2.3 billion (about $164 million). The deal includes the New Vaal, New Denmark and Kriel mines, as well as various mine life
Coalmining in Sydney's drinking water catchment will be scrutinised by water experts, the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment has announced. Enviroment groups, which have been warning for years of the impact of coalmining on drinking water welcomed the move but called for a
TAIYUAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- North China's coal-rich Shanxi Province has issued its first mining project license in 13 years following an industry reshuffle to eliminate outdated coal production capacity. The provincial land and resources department said on Thursday that it has given the go-ahead to the
Indian mining giant Adani has proposed a $16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Gallilee Basin. The proposal has sparked legal challenges and widespread protests. In India, Adani has been accused of causing salinity in water supplies and the illegal destruction of mangroves and sand
The recent Cabinet decision to open up coal mining to commercial miners, who will now have the freedom to sell coal in the open market, is an interesting development. For decades since its nationalisation, the public sector Coal India Limited (CIL) has dominated coal production in India, producing some
Once more, the issue of random drug and alcohol testing has come up within an industry where safety sensitive workplaces abound. The industry this time: coal mining. While post incident and reasonable cause testing were introduced and accepted years ago in certain British Columbia coal mines, when
Vast volumes (over 15bn tonnes) of coal have been extracted from deep mines in the UK over the last century. To put this into context, if this extracted coal were spread over the UK land surface, this would result in a five cm deep layer of coal across the country. Today, UK coal production from deep mining
Shamus MacDougall, left, 25, of Donkin, a training miner operator at Donkin mine, chats with Wyatt Scheller, 25, of Lingan, a roof bolt operator, while preparing to get in the personnel carrier with the rest of their crew for transport into the mine, about a 3.5-km under the ocean. The mine celebrated the first