The directors of SIRIOS RESOURCES INC. are pleased to announce new drilling results obtained on the PONTAX silver property in James Bay, Quebec. Hole #18 (12+50E), drilled 50 meters east of holes #1 and #2 (ref.: June 1st 2007 press release), returned the following grades:
138 g/t Silver and 1,70% Zinc over 4 meters(ii), including [...]

China’s Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd. has agreed to sell 200,000 tonnes of thermal coal to Japanese utilities at $75 per tonne FOB, a 15 pct rise on 2006 prices but a fraction of the volume sold last year, a source familiar with the deal said on Thursday.
Yanzhou exported around four million tonnes to Japan [...]

The Mozambican government hopes that large scale exploitation of the huge coal reserves at Moatize, in the western province of Tete, will begin in the next three years.
Speaking to reporters at the end of a meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) on Tuesday, the government spokesperson, Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane, said the government [...]

The Tata Power Company Ltd is exploring to buying vessels and stakes in shipping companies to transport coal from Indonesia.
On Wednesday Tata Power completed its acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in Indonesian thermal coal producers, PT Kaltim Prima Coal and PT Arutmin Indonesia, along with related trading companies owned by PT Bumi Resources.
The [...]

Lightning struck surface equipment at Alabama’s largest underground coal mine on Wednesday, injuring five people and forcing the company to evacuate workers.
Drummond Co. said lightning hit a drilling rig that was boring a shaft at its Shoal Creek Mine in Jefferson County, sending a charge down the steel equipment and igniting methane gas that was [...]

Even before Gov. Ernie Fletcher asked the General Assembly to approve incentives to attract coal-conversion plants to Kentucky, his administration had quietly committed at least $2.4 million to two such projects.
Without a public announcement, the state awarded a contract in May to Peabody Energy for $400,000 to conduct a feasibility study on a $3 billion [...]

Altona Resources is conducting a feasibility study of the Wintinna coal deposit north of Coober Pedy.
The company hopes to begin construction on a mine and power station within 18 months.
Managing Director Chris Schrape says the coal resource was proven during extensive exploration in the 1980s and 1990s.

The bodies of the last two victims of a coal mine explosion in Russia were recovered late Wednesday, bringing the official death toll from the blast to 10.
Investigators were still unsure what sparked the methane explosion that ripped the Komsomolskaya mine in Vorkuta Monday.

A senior coal company executive on Wednesday lambasted U.S. lawmakers for proposing caps on emissions blamed for global warming, saying the Democrats were out to destroy America’s coal industry.
Robert Murray, chairman, president and chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., also blasted the federal government’s mine safety agency for “outrageous” new fines that he warned could [...]

Singapore-listed Noble Group increased its stake in Australian coal miner Gloucester Coal Ltd. to 10.4 percent, the Australian company said Wednesday.
Noble Group announced late Tuesday in an announcement to the Singapore Exchange it had purchased a further 4.3 million shares of the Sydney-based company to raise its holding. Noble Group said it now holds 8.2 [...]