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• Bathurst confident of riding out depressed hard coking coal prices

  07 Jul 2014

  Depressed global prices of premium hard coking coal appear set to continue, but West Coast mine de... . ...Read More

• Coal prices ease further on weak demand

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: Spot coal prices in the international markets eased further on July 3 as buyers continued ... . ...Read More

• Coal production from 33 captive blocks may reach 52.93 mt in 2014-15

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: Coal production from 33 captive coal blocks, which have not yet attended the pick rated ca... . ...Read More

• Steel Minister meets Goa and Rajasthan CM on MMDR Act amendment

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: Union Minister of Steel, Mines and Labour & Employment Narendra Singh Tomar, has sough... . ...Read More

• June e-auctions on coaljunction platform see good demand

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: Good demand was witnessed for the offerings of coal from Singareni Collieries Company Ltd ... . ...Read More

• Coking coal sees good demand at e-auction in June

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: Washery grade coking coal (W3 and W4) offered on the e-auction platform conducted by coalj... . ...Read More

• SCCL offerings see fair demand in June spot e-auction

  04 Jul 2014

  July 4: A fair demand was witnessed for coal offered by Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) fo... . ...Read More

• Govt may allow coal linkage swap

  04 Jul 2014

  To optimise availability of coal and reduce its cost of transportation, the government is planning... . ...Read More

• U.S. Ex-Im Bank weighs loan to major India coal project

  04 Jul 2014

  The U.S. Export-Import Bank is considering financing a massive coal-fired power plant in India des... . ...Read More

• Obama pleas to China, India to forgo use of coal falls on deaf ears

  04 Jul 2014

  But in China and India, the trends are very different, as those nations are gravitating toward coa... . ...Read More

• Coal Ministry revamps bidding policy as mines find no takers

  04 Jul 2014

  The Centre is overhauling coal blocks bidding policy, formulated by the previous UPA government, t... . ...Read More

• APGenco signs MoUs to procure coal

  04 Jul 2014

  The Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation (APGenco) is putting all efforts to procure suffic... . ...Read More

• APEPDCL to speed up work on sub-stations

  04 Jul 2014

  Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) will speed up the work on its ... . ...Read More

• The Coal India problem

  04 Jul 2014

  Though Coal India Limited has continued to under-perform, and badly—it produced just 462 mil... . ...Read More

• Govt can double power output without raising tariffs, says Goyal

  04 Jul 2014

  Eyeing a quick-fix to blackouts, Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal today said the government is... . ...Read More