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• Power generation units stare at coal shortages

  23 Jul 2014

  Coal production in the open cast projects of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has decli... . ...Read More

• Coal firm SOS on Trinamul leader

  23 Jul 2014

  Eastern Coalfields, a Coal India subsidiary, has threatened to suspend work at a mine in Raniganj ... . ...Read More

• Coal India’s breakup: Modi’s trump card?

  23 Jul 2014

  According to government sources, Narendra Modi’s administration is currently on track to sel... . ...Read More

• Village vote on Essar, Hindalco Mahan block between 18-22 August

  23 Jul 2014

  Villagers will vote on whether the land can be used for mining and how to relinquish their forest ... . ...Read More

• NTPC assures sufficient coal stock at Odisha plants

  23 Jul 2014

  CEA of India had said that 46 out of 100 electricity generation stations in the country have fuel ... . ...Read More

• Villagers threaten to paralyse coal mining in Odisha colliery from July 25

  23 Jul 2014

  The aggrieved villagers of Hensmul in the Talcher coalfield area in Odisha have rejected the &lsqu... . ...Read More

• Odisha, IWAI Sign Pact to Develop 332km National Waterway to Transport Coal, Iron Ore

  23 Jul 2014

  For the development and maintenance of 332km stretch of National Waterways-5 in Odisha, Inland Wat... . ...Read More

• Mechel reports record results for coal supplies to Asia Pacific

  23 Jul 2014

  Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports reaching r... . ...Read More

• Oversupply of thermal coal could close mines

  23 Jul 2014

  The global market for seaborne thermal coal will be oversupplied by about 10-million tonnes this y... . ...Read More

• CCI 7, CCI 2 thermal coal down again on new China price cut

  23 Jul 2014

  Imported 4,700 kcal/kg NAR thermal coal delivered to south China (CCI 7) came under pressure again... . ...Read More

• China coal demand to peak by 2020 – Standard & Poor

  23 Jul 2014

  China’s demand for coal is likely to peak by 2020, according to new analysis from ratings ag... . ...Read More

• China warns against "blind" rush to build coal-to-gas plants

  23 Jul 2014

  China has warned operators against "blindly" developing projects to turn coal into synth... . ...Read More

• Timing "tough" for $4.5 bln Thai-Mozambique coal rail-port project

  23 Jul 2014

  A Thai-Mozambican consortium has set a 2018 target to commission a $4.5 billion coal export railwa... . ...Read More

• German Coal Power Plants Are Europe’s Most Climate-Damaging

  23 Jul 2014

    Germany has some of Europe’s most ambitious climate targets. It also has four of th... . ...Read More

• Spot steam coal rates ease further in global markets

  22 Jul 2014

  July 22: Spot prices of seaborne steam coal in international markets eased further on July 21 on t... . ...Read More