Mettiki Coal LLC is closing its Maryland mining operations, but that doesn’t mean the company is pulling out of Garrett County or that any jobs with the mining company will be lost.
“The coal reserves are depleted,” Frank Schad, manager of administration and planning at Mettiki, said. “It’s been in the planning horizon for many years, [...]

A University of North Dakota professor says the Panhandle and southeast Nebraska could be good locations to bury concentrated carbon dioxide produced by coal- burning power plants.
Edward Steadman is program manager for the Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership, one of seven regional partnerships to study the feasibility of geological sequestration.
In geological sequestration, concentrated carbon dioxide is [...]

You are going to hear a lot about gas/coal to liquids technology in Australia in coming years and it could very well end up supplanting the likes of ethanol and biodiesel as a source of energy in competition with oil.
South Africa has used it for years (Sasol), the Germans used similar technology during World War [...]

Drastic coal shortages despite massive natural deposits have had a ripple effect throughout Zimbabwe’s economy and ruined a deal to renovate the country’s biggest steelworks, the government has acknowledged.
The energy crisis adds to the economic woes of Zimbabwe, which is already suffering from acute shortages of many basic commodities.
Industry Minister Obert Mpofu told a panel [...]

Sulfide mining can be performed safely in the Upper Peninsula without damaging the environment, according to a recently formed pro-mining organization.
Citizens for Responsible Mining, the brainchild of Ishpeming brothers Tom and Gary Petersen, hopes to better educate the public about the process of sulfide mining, Tom Petersen said.
“The rhetoric I was seeing from anti-mining groups, [...]

Less than two months after receiving the final permit needed to begin construction, Phelps Dodge has several building projects underway at the Safford mine site.
Concrete has been poured, and foundation work is being done on several sites around the Safford mine, most notably the primary, secondary and tertiary crusher sites. While work on road-building began [...]

An online service set for launch early next year will perpetually mine the Internet for gems useful to sophisticated financial investors, the company said.
A specialized search engine christened “Monitor110″ promises to continually sift and sort information from nearly 40 million online sources to uncover business trends or developments before word reaches mainstream media.
“It can monitor [...]

Against a backdrop of tanking oil and natural gas prices, drilling contractors Friday struck a contrarian tone at an annual gathering here: business is almost too good.
The recent weakening in commodity prices has raised investor skittishness toward energy in some cases. But oil and gas drillers, gathered here for the annual meeting of the International [...]

Shares of solar power companies including Solarworld AG and Q-Cells AG slumped as falling prices for natural gas and crude oil reduced incentives to invest in alternative energy companies.
Solarworld stock lost 2.31 euros, or 5.7 percent, to 38.34 euros. Competitor Q-Cells AG fell 3.8 percent and Conergy AG dropped 2 percent.
Oil and gas have fallen [...]

Malaysia will ensure adequate supply of palm oil for use in cooking, the country’s Minister for Plantation Industries and Commodities Peter Chin Fah Kui said.
The Southeast Asian country, the world’s largest producer of the vegetable oil, will make sure that the commodity’s supply for blending in biofuels won’t be at the expense of its availability [...]