Mexico finds first remains of coal miners lost in 2022 accident
Mining News Pro - Mexican authorities have located remains from two of the 10 coal miners trapped and killed at the El Pinabete mine in the state of Coahuila in August 2022, the government said in a statement on Thursday.
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US Indigenous coal miners with black lung disease unlikely to qualify for federal support
Mining News Pro - Indigenous coal miners may develop disabling black lung disease but are less likely to qualify for medical benefits using currently required lung function standards rather than standards specific to Indigenous populations, according to new research.
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Coal miners forced to save for a rainy day by insurance snub
Mining News Pro - Some coal producers are having to set aside tens of millions of dollars to cover their own risks as they are cut adrift by insurers, making it more difficult and costly to do business amid a surge in demand for the fossil fuel.
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Australian coal miner’s plans may double its methane emissions
Mining News Pro - Whitehaven Coal Ltd.’s plans to expand its mining operations could double the Australian company’s methane emissions by the end of this decade, according to an analysis from energy think tank Ember, undermining the nation’s global climate commitments.
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German coal miners under fire for unfair edge in renewables push
Mining News Pro - Less than a year after German coal giant LEAG unveiled plans to transform its open-cast mines into wind and solar farms, concerns are mounting that it and other lignite miners are exploiting an unfair advantage in the country’s race to go green.
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Coal miners urge Manchin to rethink opposition to spending bill
Mining News Pro - America’s biggest coal mining union is calling on West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to reconsider his opposition to President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion social and climate spending bill.
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Biggest US coal miner surges as global energy crisis boosts demand
Mining News Pro - The global energy crisis that’s fueling demand for coal boosted third-quarter results for Peabody Energy Corp., pushing up shares 17%.
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US coal miners could be next in line for industry bailouts
Mining News Pro - There isn’t much that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Sierra Club agree on, but one of those rare things is a measure that’s part of the bipartisan infrastructure package to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives later this month that would fund $11.3 billion to remediate coal mines abandoned before 1977.
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Australian coal miners recapitalise, eye BHP assets and other M&A
Mining News Pro - Buoyed by a rebound in the price of coal, Australian miners of the resource are dusting off expansion plans and raising capital for new projects and acquisitions.
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Workers again block rail line supplying Colombia coal miner Cerrejon
Mining News Pro - Former workers have again blocked Colombian coal miner Cerrejon’s rail line, the company said on Thursday, the latest protest to recently affect the beleaguered miner’s operations.
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US coal miners call on Trump to move on
Mining News Pro - Support from coal miners helped Donald Trump win the US presidency four years ago. Now, the leader of the nation’s top mining union is calling on Trump to “move on”, adding that ongoing efforts to challenge vote counts and pressure state elections officials are a “threat to our entire form of government and the American way of life.”
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Banks don’t want to lend to Australia’s coal miners any more
Mining News Pro - Financing options open to Australia’s coal operators dwindled further after another of the country’s largest banks said it would end almost all investment in thermal mines and power stations by 2030.
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EU climate transition needs mineral miners, not coal miners
Mining News Pro - The European Union needs to transform its coal-mining regions into the source of minerals for clean technology, such as cobalt and rare earths, if it is to meet its climate goals and curb import reliance, a senior official said on Monday.
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Citi to stop working with thermal coal miners, to reject funding for Arctic oil, gas exploration
Mining News Pro - Citigroup will stop providing financial services to thermal coal-mining companies over the next 10 years to help accelerate the economy’s shift away from fossil fuels.
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Black-lung coal miners facing serious threat from virus spread
Mining News Pro - The biggest labor union for U.S. coal miners is warning that members are at “significant risk” from the rapidly spreading coronavirus.
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Foresight latest US coal miner to file for bankruptcy
Mining News Pro - Foresight Energy became on Tuesday the latest coal miner to file for bankruptcy, saying the global economic slowdown triggered by the coronavirus epidemic had pushed it over the edge.
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Colombia coal miner Cerrejon, union fail to reach contract agreement
Mining News Pro - Cerrejon, one of Colombia`s biggest coal producers, and its largest workers union on Friday concluded contract negotiations without reaching an agreement, the parties said.
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China urges coal miners to resume production to keep market supplied
Mining News Pro - China National Energy Administration on Saturday urged coal miners to resume production to keep the market supplied and stabilize prices amid the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 250 people and infected over 10,000.
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Joe Biden tells coal miners to learn to code
Mining News Pro - Democratic presidential hopeful and former US vice president Joe Biden told unemployed miners, particularly those in the coal sector, to learn to code so that they can access the jobs of the future.
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South African coal miner plans new climate change strategy
Mining News Pro - South Africa’s Exxaro Resources Ltd. said it’s working on a new strategy for its business founded on coal mining amid investor and public concerns about the impact of climate change.
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US coal miners lobby Congress to fund Black Lung Trust Fund
Mining News Pro - Coal miners from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia, some sick with black lung disease, went to Capitol Hill this week to lobby Congress to fund the Black Lung Trust Fund, only to leave the meeting disappointed.
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Three coal miners die in Poland after quake
Mining News Pro - Three miners died after a tremor on Monday at a Polish coal mine owned by mining group PGG, the company said, in the deadliest incident in the country’s mining industry this year.
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Coal miner TerraCom fires up A$63 million restructuring plan
Mining News Pro - Australian coal producer TerraCom (ASX:TER) has rolled out a A$63 million (about $44m) restructuring plan, consisting of a A$35-million capital raise and a $20-million convertible bond to support its growth ambitions.
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Coal miners reach deal with Aurizon over QLD rail access
Mining News Pro - Rail operator Aurizon has signed agreements with coal mining customers for a revised rail access deal via the Central Queensland Coal Network (CQCN).
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The coal miner who bet everything on U.S. power markets and lost
Mining News Pro - Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. made an all-or-nothing bet its rivals were unwilling to match: that coal would remain indispensable to the U.S. power sector.
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