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• Weak coal volumes help propel earnings miss at Union Pacific

  24 Apr 2015

  Union Pacific Corp said on Thursday its first quarter results were hurt by a drop in coal volumes ... . ...Read More

• Coal Waste Sites make West Virginians Worried

  24 Apr 2015

  Marsh Fork Elementary, deep in West Virginia coal country, is shut down and fenced in, a fine laye... . ...Read More

• Coal overshadows EU membership prospects of the Western Balkans

  24 Apr 2015

  EU accession for Western Balkans countries must go hand in hand with environmental and climate act... . ...Read More

• Firefighters extinguish coal fire at Ohio power station

  24 Apr 2015

  Firefighters from several jurisdictions were called in Thursday to help deal with a fire at a powe... . ...Read More

• death toll further rose to 21 in north China coal mine flood

  24 Apr 2015

   Search teams have recovered the bodies of 21 Chinese coal miners who died when the shaft w... . ...Read More

• Stable trend in international coal markets

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: A stable trend prevailed in international coal markets on April 22 with little change in... . ...Read More

• Proposal to bring NLW coals under coking coal bracket

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: In view of the shortage of coking coal reserves, the coal ministry is considering a prop... . ...Read More

• Washed coal demand from MCL to rise to 118 mt by FY17

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: With the new environmental norms coming into effect from next year, demand for washed co... . ...Read More

• Jharkhand tops the list in terms of number of auction of coal blocks

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: The state of Jharkhand appears to have benefitted the most in the auction of coal mines ... . ...Read More

• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister inaugurates NTPC-ITI at Korba

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: The NTPC Ltd funded newly-built Industrial Training Institute at Korba in Chhattisgarh w... . ...Read More

• Railways’ coal handling up 7% in 2014-15

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: Indian Railways transported 545 million tons (mt) of coal during 2014-15, up 7.38% from ... . ...Read More

• CIL plans to align prices of high-grade coal to international rates

  23 Apr 2015

   Coal IndiaBSE 1.53 % plans to switch to market pricing for highcalorie coal where prices wou... . ...Read More

• Studying bids for mines in 3rd phase of coal auction: Jindal Steel and Power

  23 Apr 2015

  Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) today said it is studying on the bidding of coal blocks for the next... . ...Read More

• Tight deadlines set for winners of coal producing blocks

  23 Apr 2015

  Winners of producing coal blocks will have one month to apply for statutory permissions for transf... . ...Read More

• Opaque and dubious auctions: Difficult to locate the fair price for coal in a non-transparent system

  23 Apr 2015

  The government claims the coal block auctions were meant to ensure two things: One, get the fair v... . ...Read More