BEIJING - A gas explosion trapped 35 workers underground on Tuesday at a coal mine in northwest China, Xinhua news agency said, the latest accident to hit the world’s deadliest mining industry.
The blast occurred at the Weijiadi coal mine in Baiyin city in Gansu, an underdeveloped province hosting part of the Gobi Desert, Xinhua said, [...]

Already a big user of Illinois-produced corn, Corn Products International Inc. is now relying on coal mined downstate to help process corn at its Bedford Park plant.
Company and state officials took part Monday in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for Corn Products’ new coal-fired boiler, which is designed to reduce the plant’s emissions.
Corn Products started work on [...]

Shares of two coal property managers tumbled on Monday after an Citigroup analyst downgraded the stocks over concerns that they might eventually feel pressure from issues negatively impacting the broader industry.
Shares of Houston-based Natural Resources Partners LP fell $2, or 3.7 percent, to $52.35 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Shares of Alliance [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One miner was killed and a second was seriously injured Monday in what has become the deadliest year in the nation’s coal mines in a decade.
And the industry, reeling from the 43 deaths so far in 2006, still faces the most dangerous time of the year: the winter.
Federal statistics show most coal [...]

Vietnam has banned coal shipping in Halong Bay to reduce industrial pollution in the World Heritage-listed island seascape, industry officials said.
“We have decided to stop all coal shipping activities in Halong Bay to protect the environment, from November 1,” said Pham Trung Hung, head of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin).
The group [...]

Protesters blocked streets in two bauxite industry towns in Guinea on Monday, accusing authorities in the West African state of failing to use funds to improve roads and living conditions, witnesses said.
The demonstrators, many of them women, used tyres, blocks of wood and pieces of iron to erect barricades in Fria and Kamsar, where some [...]

Jacynthe Côté, a Senior Vice President of Alcan Inc. and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s Bauxite and Alumina Group stressed the importance of partnering in her remarks at the fourth annual International Cooperation Days (ICD) forum. Organized by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and its partner, this year’s forum is focused [...]

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Bolivia’s biggest foreign investor, and Repsol-YPF SA agreed to the South American nation’s new energy law, pledging to search for more natural gas deposits.
Petrobras and Repsol were among eight companies that early today signed agreements with the Bolivian government, adding to accords with Total SA and Occidental Petroleum Corp. yesterday.
“The other option [...]