Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited announces that, following a request made by the Company to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, trading in its H Shares has resumed with effect from 9:30 a.m. on December 8, 2008. Trading in its H shares was suspended with effect from 9:38 a.m. on December 5, 2008 pending [...]

Canasia Industries Corporation has received approval from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources on coal permits covering 46,080 hectares (approximately 99,000 acres). Canasia has received partial applications to date from the Saskatchewan Government covering 51,520 hectares (approximately 127,250 acres), and management anticipates receiving additional permits in the near future. Once all applications have been [...]

Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that VTB Bank has provided the Company with credit lines in the amount of 15 billion rubles (approximately US$560 million).
VTB Bank has opened one-year credit lines totaling 15 billion rubles for Yakutugol OJSHC, Southern Kuzbass Coal Company OAO and CMK OAO, subsidiaries of [...]

Whitewater Mining Corporation, a junior exploration company who is acquiring and developing mining concessions in Latin America, has just signed a Letter of Intent for a 10,000 hectare thermic coal mining concession in Valledupar, Cesar in Colombia. The concession in an area with large bituminous coal reserves of excellent quality. Its preliminary evaluation has also [...]

KAL Energy, Inc., a thermal coal explorer and developer, announced the publication of an updated JORC Compliant Resource Statement on its Graha Panca Karsa concession (Block 24) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
William Bloking, Executive Chairman and President of KAL Energy, Inc. said, “We are delighted to report not only a significant increase in the overall size [...]

Waratah Coal Inc. announce that the Queensland Government has declared the Galilee Coal Project (Northern Export Facility) a ‘Significant Project’ for which an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is required.
Waratah Coal President and CEO Peter Lynch today said, “This declaration reflects the effort and cooperation that has been achieved between Waratah Coal and the Queensland [...]

Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is finalizing an extension of the agreement deadline with the vendors of Appolo Mines and Diversified Energy of Middlesboro, Tennessee and Knoxville, Kentucky respectively as the current agreement expires today.
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is a coal producer with operations the Witbank area of South Africa. The company also has a [...]

North American Gem Inc. announce that the Company has received an additional 187 Coal Prospecting Permits from Saskatchewan Energy and Resources, near the most recent coal discovery by Goldsource Mines Inc. (TSX-V symbol: GXS - News). This now brings the total to 620 Coal Prospecting Permits covering an area of 1,176,617 acres (476,160 hectares) that [...]

Western Canadian Coal Corp. announces that despite a successful start-up of mining operations at the Willow Creek Mine, the current volatile and rapid global economic uncertainty is impacting the demand for metallurgical coal. As a result, the Company will temporarily suspend mining operations and future capital expenditures at the Willow Creek Mine at the end [...]

Peabody Energy announced it has entered into a sales agreement for its 62.5 percent interest in the Baralaba Mine in Australia with Cockatoo Coal Limited.
Peabody is receiving approximately US$33.6 million [A$52.5 million] for its interest in Baralaba, which has approximately 1.5 million tons of remaining reserves and produced approximately 330,000 tons of thermal and PCI [...]