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$5.5b retail owner 'not enthusiastic' about Peabody scrip for Coronado - AFR
AFR
Peabody boss Jim Grech has made it clear over the past year that the domestic-focused US thermal coal industry was in “secular decline” and he ...

Government needs to 'stop encouraging' premature closure of coal fired power stations
Sky News Australia
Shadow Climate & Energy Minister Ted O'Brien says the Australian government needs to stop encouraging the "premature closure of coal fired power ...

Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine holds first Fall Festival - WVNS
WVNS
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS)– The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine held its first Fall Festival on Saturday. Vendors from around the region came out to show off ...

Explosives topple former coal-fired power plant in Minnesota - The Washington Post
The Washington Post
A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota has crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part of a planned implosion that ...

Maryland's last coal-heated public school, Fort Hill, to get natural gas conversion
Cumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND — For nearly 90 years as temperatures dropped, crews have worked in shifts around the clock to feed coal into and remove ashes from ...

NatGas Continues to Replace Coal for Powergen, Even w/High Prices | Marcellus Drilling News
Marcellus Drilling News
In 2021, the use of coal in the U.S. to fire power plants actually rose by 16% after it had declined steadily, year after year, from 2014 to 2020.

Utility Explores Converting Coal Plants into Nuclear Power - Scientific American
Scientific American
The pair agreed last year to build a 345-megawatt Natrium nuclear reactor at the site of a retiring coal plant in western Wyoming. The deal signals ...

Coking Coal Market 2022: Analysis of Upcoming Trend - Anyuak Media
Anyuak Media
... Cloud Peak Energy, Datong Coal Industry Company Limited, PT Adaro Energy, Tbk, Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited, Murray Energy Corporation.

China coal trade disrupted by COVID outbreaks as winter looms - Reuters
Reuters
China's strict COVID-19 policy is constraining coal supplies and pushing up prices, industry officials and traders say, just weeks before the ...

South Africa, Indonesia get $1 billion to close coal plants - MINING.COM
Mining.com
BHP's Queensland coal miners union demands better work conditions · Reuters | October 24, 2022 | 3:28 pm. China's Sept coal output jumps 12.3% on ..

UMWA's Anthracite - UMWA
UMWA
In addition to his duties as Financial Secretary, Brother Dave serves on the Mine Safety Committee. “My job here at Jeddo is operating a ...

China's Shanxi raises coal output by 10.5 pct in Jan-Sept - Xinhua
Xinhua
In the January-September period, coal mining enterprises in Shanxi produced 977.91 million tonnes of raw coal, an increase of 93 million tonnes ...