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• April e-auction sees moderate demand for G-10 grade coal

  07 May 2014

  May 7: G-10 grade coal (GCV range 4,301 and 4,600 Kcal/kg) offered through the e-auction platform ... . ...Read More

• G-11 grade coal sees good demand in April e-auction

  07 May 2014

  May 7: Good demand was witnessed for G-11 grade coal (GCV range 4,001 and 4,300 Kcal/kg) during Ap... . ...Read More

• Very strong demand for G-12 grade coal in April e-auction

  07 May 2014

  May 7: A very strong demand was witnessed for G-12 (GCV between 3,700 and 4,000 Kcal/kg) grade coa... . ...Read More

• Mixed grade coal sees strong demand in April e-auction

  07 May 2014

  May 7: Very strong demand was witnessed for mixed grade coal offered in the e-auctions conducted o... . ...Read More

• Coal-block allotment probe: CBI closes 4 of 18 cases; was there no corruption?

  07 May 2014

  That's the implicit message from the CBI's action of closing four of the 18 cases in the c... . ...Read More

• US OTC coal market prices mostly unchanged in low volume session

  07 May 2014

  US over-the-counter thermal coal prices were mostly unchanged on Tuesday, with only two trades in ... . ...Read More

• Coal Fe shareholders smile on asset deals

  07 May 2014

     The share price of ASX-listed junior Coal Fe Resources doubled on Wednesday on news... . ...Read More

• America’s Unwanted Coal Finds Willing Home Elsewhere

  07 May 2014

  DIRTY COAL   U.S. policy is turning against coal. Last week the Supreme Court ruled in fa... . ...Read More

• DOE offers 26 new areas for oil, coal exploration

  07 May 2014

  The Department of Energy (DOE) is offering 26 new areas for petroleum and coal exploration. &nbs... . ...Read More

• Galilee basin coal too expensive for Indian market – report

  07 May 2014

  Billion-dollar coal developments planned in Queensland may be uneconomical, a new report by the In... . ...Read More

• Big Coal flexes $100 million PR muscle on soft sell

  07 May 2014

  The muscle of the coal industry’s lobbying machine was flexed last month with the launch of ... . ...Read More

• Ex-Gloucester CEO lines up $200m to buy Asia-Pacific coal assets

  07 May 2014

  The former boss of Australia's Gloucester Coal has lined up $200 million from a private equity... . ...Read More

• Stanford to divest from coal companies

  07 May 2014

  Stanford University will not make direct investments of endowment funds in publicly traded compani... . ...Read More

• International coal prices largely stable

  06 May 2014

  May 6: The spot prices of steam coal in international markets remained largely stable on May 5 in ... . ...Read More

• APP urges CIL to sell unused coal stock to private power plants

  06 May 2014

  May 6: Buoyed by reports that Coal India Ltd (CIL) is finding it difficult to liquidate its coal s... . ...Read More