Coking coal price crashes through $100
Australian coking coal export prices fell nearly 4% reaching single digits for the first time since the data have been collected while quarterly contract prices reached six year lows. According to data...
View ArticleCanada to lose 695 coal mining jobs in same province bringing Chinese workers
Overview of Walter Energy’s Wolverine coal mine, the first one to close. US producer of metallurgical coal Walter Energy (NYSE:WLT) (TSX:WLT) said last week it is shutting down its two mines in...
View ArticleMINING.COM Vale fires 500 coal miners in Australia, shuts down operations
Vale operations in Australia, courtesy of Integra. Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE) confirmed Friday it is closing its Integra Mine Complex in Australia, as the coal operation is not economically feasible...
View ArticleOver 30,000 job applicants for newly-opened coal mine in Queensland
By: Michael Allan McCrae Caval Ridge Mine, a joint project of BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi, was opened today by BHP Billiton Coal President, Dean Dalla Valle, and Australian PM Tony Abbott. The US$3.4...
View ArticleChina to scrap tariffs on Australian coal
Article By: Cecilia Jamasmie | October 22, 2014 The Chinese government has decided to scrap tariffs on Australian coal imports announced earlier this month once ongoing negotiations on a free trade...
View ArticleB.C. asks you to stuff stockings with local coal
By Cecilia Jamasmie Canada’s British Columbia government is not trying to be mean by telling you to stuff your stockings with coal this coming Christmas. Unlike our Western culture tradition of...
View ArticleMines minister trying to regain Alaska’s confidence in B.C.
By: MINING.com Editor British Columbia’s Energy Minister Bill Bennett is in Alaska in an effort to regain the state’s confidence in B.C.’s mining industry, which has weakened since the Mount Polley...
View ArticleCanada’s oil sands cash flows set to drop by $21 billion
Cecilia Jamasmie | February 24, 2015 Canada’s oil sands cash flows are set to drop by $21 billion in the next two years, a report published Tuesday by energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows. According...
View ArticleAnother Major Getting Out Of The Oil Sands Business
By MINING.com PetroChina (NYSE:PTR), the Asian country’s largest oil major by market value, no longer wants a stake in Canada’s oil sands as the ongoing collapse in crude prices has made the sector...
View ArticleChurch of England $14bn fund blacklists coal, oil sands
BY: Frik Els The Church of England is one of the world’s richest religious institutions with an investment portfolio worth $13.8 billion. On Thursday the body said that it will no longer make any...
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