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• Capesize: viability of anticipated spike in rates put under scanner

  09 Oct 2015

  Cape Depressives start of the fourth quarter, with c3 approaching USD 12 pmt and c5 presently in ... . ...Read More

• Aspire’s strategy in a weak metallurgical coal market

  09 Oct 2015

  Aspire Mining Ltd has positioned itself as a Mongolian focused metallurgical coal explorer buildin... . ...Read More

• South African Coal strike may end soon

  09 Oct 2015

  South Africa's coal miners may end a strike after the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said... . ...Read More

• Westmoreland Coal keeping its mine equipment connected

  09 Oct 2015

  Zebra Technologies Corp. and KNS Communications Consultants reveal the Zebra wireless local area n... . ...Read More

• Patriot Coal gets court approval for reorganization plan

  09 Oct 2015

  A U.S. bankruptcy court approved Patriot Coal's restructuring plan at a hearing on Thursday, i... . ...Read More

• US railroad coal delays of two to five days drop in West, rise in East: STB

  09 Oct 2015

  Coal shipment delays of two to five days dropped in the West but increased in the East, reports fi... . ...Read More

• Longwall Chain Australia expanding to Queensland

  09 Oct 2015

  Longwall Chain Australia is expanding its business by opening a facility in Emerald Queensland, Au... . ...Read More

• Australia thermal coal price at 8-year low

  09 Oct 2015

  The price of high grade Australian thermal coal — the main benchmark for the Asian market &m... . ...Read More

• India Plans to double coal output by 2020

  09 Oct 2015

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has set an ambitious target for state-owned producer... . ...Read More

• Coal India, union agree on bonus

  09 Oct 2015

  Government-owned Coal India has granted a bonus of Rs 48,500 each to its 332,000 non-executive wor... . ...Read More

• Delhi puts coal block plan on backburner

  09 Oct 2015

  Months after it announced plans of getting a coal block allocated to set up a pithead plant in ano... . ...Read More

• Coal stocks at DTEK warehouses 39% up in a month

  08 Oct 2015

  Coal stocks at the warehouses of DTEK thermal power plants (TPP) from August 4 to September 4 incr... . ...Read More

• Will US Utilities Flock to Restock Coal Inventories?

  08 Oct 2015

  Coal inventories In its September 28 report, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) pu... . ...Read More

• How Will the Rebound in Crude Oil Prices Impact US Coal?

  08 Oct 2015

  Crude oil prices WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil prices increased again during the week ... . ...Read More

• US Coal under Pressure as Natural Gas Prices Remain Subdued

  08 Oct 2015

  Natural gas prices Natural gas prices in the spot market dropped again to $2.56 per MMBtu (milli... . ...Read More