To feed the sustained demand, the global coal mining industry has increased annual production on a nearly continuous basis since 2000. Coal also has by far the largest reserves out of all the non ...

Residents are concerned about water, soil and air pollution from the proposed mine. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp Residents of communities near a proposed coal mining project in the Vaal ...

the government said The future of a controversial coal mine is still unclear, despite clean energy promises from the government. New coal mining schemes would be banned in the UK to "pave the way ...

Credit: Maksim Safaniuk/Shutterstock. The UK Government has announced plans to introduce legislation as soon as possible to halt the issuance of new coal mining licences as part of its clean energy ...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) this week reported that the South African mining industry’s production had increased by 4.7% year-on-year in September, but that coal production had decreased ...

Fires and explosions are not uncommon in coal mines around the world. During the last week of November 2014 for example, two mining tragedies in China claimed 35 lives. Such accidents can have many ...

Currently, 25 states have coal mining operations in place. The term “coal stock” refers to any company involved in coal mining, processing or burning. A company with a coal stock might be ...

It's hard to overstate the importance of coal mining to the British way of life. Until the late twentieth century, it was our primary energy source, both industrially and domestically. In the 1920s, 1 ...

Credit: Herbert Aust from Pixabay. Private equity firm EMR Capital has initiated the process to sell the Kestrel coking coal mine in Australia, reported Reuters, citing the company’s CEO Jason Chang.

New coal mining schemes will be banned in the UK, the Government has said. Ministers have confirmed that legislation will be introduced to restrict the future licensing of new coal mines, as they said ...