MELBOURNE (Reuters) - India’s Adani Enterprises has awarded a contract to an Australian rail company as the conglomerate steps up infrastructure spending to support its new thermal coal mine in Queensland state. The A$100 million ($68.30 million) contract was awarded to privately held...

The closure is expected to impact about 225 workers. Employees were told at a compulsory meeting on Monday, local media reported. The company would try to place employees at other Peabody operations in the Midwest, according to a letter to staff. The underground Wildcat thermal coal mine...

BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - China’s coal imports in September dropped 8.1% from a month earlier, as traders held up purchases amid an increase in domestic supply and slowing demand for the fuel from power generation companies. Arrivals of coal, including thermal and coking coal, last month...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia’s New South Wales water authority has lodged a strong objection to a planned extension of the life of a coal mine operated by South 32 because of its predicted impact on water resources that support Sydney. The Dendrobium metallurgical coal mine is part of...

Indian coking coal imports moving through 12 key state-controlled ports totalled 29.3mn t in the first six months of the 2019-20 fiscal year starting 1 April, an increase of 15pc from a year earlier despite weakness in the steel sector. Coking coal imports are on track to slightly overtake total...

Houston — The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting a 17% decline in fourth-quarter coal production from the year-ago period, according to the agency's monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. The report, issued Tuesday, forecasts total US coal production to sink to 159 million...

Only an inept government would allow the legal status of an industry that is vital to national power generation and contributes significantly to tax revenue to remain in limbo.But imbroglio is truly the biggest problem that seven major coal mining companies are now facing after deliberations on the...

South Africa is pushing coal producers to cut prices to help save Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the indebted power utility that threatens to unravel the country’s finances. “At these prices of electricity, this economy is going to collapse,” Mineral and Energy Resources Minister...

London — Dutch coal-fired generation fell to negligible levels over the summer as gas-fired output doubles on year, data analyzed by S&P Global Platts showed Wednesday. Coal plant output averaged 0.5 GW in September, with gas generation at 3.6 GW. "Coal-fired generation has...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will aim to shut a total of 8.66 gigawatts (GW) of obsolete coal-fired power capacity by the end of this year, its energy regulator said, part of its efforts to curb smog and greenhouse gas emissions. The National Energy Administration didn’t say how much of the...