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International Royalty Acquires Producing Coal Royalty

September 12th, 2008
International Royalty Acquires Producing Coal Royalty

International Royalty Corporation announce that it has completed the acquisition of an overriding royalty interest on the Skyline Coal Mine located in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. The Skyline Mine is operated by Canyon Fuel Company, a subsidiary of Arch Coal Inc., one of the largest coal producers in the United States.
The royalty acquired [...]

International Coal Group to Present at Davenport Metals & Mining Symposium

September 12th, 2008
International Coal Group to Present at Davenport Metals & Mining Symposium

International Coal Group, Inc. announced that Ben Hatfield, president and chief executive officer, will speak at the Davenport Metals & Mining Symposium in New York City on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.
Interested investors may access a live audio webcast of the presentation at 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time at International Coal Group’s website at www.intlcoal.com . Listeners [...]

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. Announces Approval of Tunnel Ridge Mine Opening

September 12th, 2008
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. Announces Approval of Tunnel Ridge Mine Opening

Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. announced that the board of directors of its managing general partner has approved the opening of a new mine for the immediate development of ARLP’s Tunnel Ridge reserves. The Tunnel Ridge reserve area encompasses approximately 9,400 acres of land located in Ohio County, West Virginia and Washington County, Pennsylvania and includes [...]

Mechel Announces the Commissioning of a New Long Wall Face at Its Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine

September 11th, 2008
Mechel Announces the Commissioning of a New Long Wall Face at Its Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine

Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that a new long wall face has been commissioned at the Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine, at its Southern Kuzbass OAO coal mining subsidiary.
New high productive long wall face No. 21-1-3 in seam 21 has been commissioned at the Olzherasskaya-Novaya Mine.
Mechel invested approximately $100.0 million (RUR2.5 [...]

Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited Coal Momentum

September 11th, 2008
Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited Coal Momentum

Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited report further exploration progress on its promising coal prospects in East Kalimantan. Latest highlights include:
- Further evidence of significant coal occurrences at Mandul Island
- High calorie coal showings at two other concessions
- Four more coal concessions added to the Option Agreement signed in April 2008
- The Option period is extended [...]

Clarification Of North American Gem’s Signs MOU to Acquire Appalachia Coal Corp.

September 11th, 2008
Clarification Of North American Gem’s Signs MOU to Acquire Appalachia Coal Corp.

North American Gem Inc. wishes to clarify the following details on its previous announced MOU to acquire Appalachia Coal Corp (ACC).
NAG wishes to clarify that the 20,000 acres being acquired from ACC hosts an exploration target which is anticipated to host in excess of 100 million tons of coal. While there has been substantial work [...]

North American Gem Signs MOU to Acquire Appalachia Coal Corp.

September 11th, 2008
North American Gem Signs MOU to Acquire Appalachia Coal Corp.

North American Gem Inc. announce that it has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with Appalachia Coal Corporation, a private company with advanced stage coal interests in West Virginia.
ACC currently controls approximately 20,000 acres of coal leases in West Virginia that are in various stages of permitting. Several different coal seams run on ACC’s properties [...]

Fording Canadian Coal Trust Announces Mailing of Circular for Proposed Sale of Assets to Teck Cominco Limited

September 10th, 2008
Fording Canadian Coal Trust Announces Mailing of Circular for Proposed Sale of Assets to Teck Cominco Limited

Fording Canadian Coal Trust announced that it has mailed its notice of special meeting and management information circular to the holders of its units, exchange options and phantom units (who, collectively, are all of the securityholders of Fording) in connection with the previously announced proposed sale of its assets to Teck Cominco Limited. The [...]

Quest Makes Additional Improvements At Pond Creek

September 10th, 2008
Quest Makes Additional Improvements At Pond Creek

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp., a Kentucky-based operator of energy and mineral related properties, confirmed today that it has thoroughly overhauled the existing infrastructure and mining equipment at its pond creek mine location in order to gear up for major production.
Everett Hampton, President of Whitestar Mining, LLC, commented, “For the past 10 days, we have [...]

America West Resources Signs $6.6 Million Coal Supply Contract with California Co-Gen Plant

September 10th, 2008
America West Resources Signs $6.6 Million Coal Supply Contract with California Co-Gen Plant

America West Resources, Inc., a domestic coal producer with mining operations in Central Utah, today announced that the Company has signed a Coal Supply Agreement with a major U.S. energy company providing for the delivery of bituminous coal mined from America West’s Horizon Coal Mine for use in a co-generation power plant based in California. [...]