China’s efforts to overhaul its coal industry to reduce overcapacity after years of expansion and curb pollution are reverberating through global markets from steel to freight. What’s happening? Output has fallen more than 10 percent so far this year as the government of President...

Australia-listed miner Terracom Ltd says the steepest rally in coal prices in over half a decade means that mines digging the commodity are becoming more expensive to buy, curbing a wave of purchases in the sector. Less than a year after the coal industry was declared to be in terminal decline...

JAKARTA (Reuters) –Consumption of diesel by Indonesian miners has picked up for the first time in four years as coal producers in the country ramped up output to meet Chinese demand, offering a glimmer of hope to Asian traders grappling with multi-year low fuel margins. Once Asia’s...

Thermal coal has been one of the commodity success stories this year, but there is a risk that it becomes a victim of its own success by eating into its advantage over liquefied natural gas (LNG) in generating electricity. The benchmark Australian thermal coal price, the Newcastle Index, rose to...

Resource investors, take note: By 2025, just 10 years from now, energy consumption in Asia will increase a whopping 31 percent. A whole two-thirds of that demand, driven largely by China and India, will be for fossil fuels, most notably coal. That’s according to a new research piece by...

Coal has been the big commodity surprise since January, with high-grade steel-making material more than doubling in price, but it’s unlikely that the great coal rush of 2016 will last much longer. At $190 a ton, coking (or metallurgical) coal is back to a price last seen in 2012 with some...

China may be investing too much in coal power, with construction of new plants accelerating at the same time that demand growth for electricity is slowing, the International Energy Agency said. The world’s biggest investor in fossil-fuel generation started more than 70 gigawatts of new...

The surge in coking coal prices to four-year highs has prompted analysts to upgrade earnings forecasts for some producers despite wariness about how long the upswing will last. The price of coking coal, used to make steel, has more than doubled this year, touching $US200 a tonne on Friday, amid...

For all the predictions about the death of coal, it’s now one of the hottest commodities in the world. The resurrection may have further to run. A surge in Chinese imports to compensate for lower domestic production has seen European prices jump to near an 18-month high, while...

Indonesia has teamed up with the World Coal Association (WCA) consider to apply high efficiency, low emissions (HELE) ‘clean’ coal technologies, developed to increase the efficiency of coal-fired power plants and maintain international commitments to mitigate climate change...