…  NTPC Ltd , India’s top power producer, is looking to buy majority stakes in Indonesian coal mines with reserves of up to 300 million tonnes to secure supplies and manage …

…  has denied that it will set a quota for coal exports as it wants to reserve the coal for future use. The reports had …  from China and India are vying for lucrative thermal power mines across Indonesia, which has helped push up the price of coal and shares …  to Energy Ministry data. The new investment plans come on top of earlier plans by Guohua Electric Power Corporation, a subsidiary of …

Coal is poised to rebound from a two-year slump as China buys more than it exports …  London’s Baltic Exchange. China’s Power China, which mines more than twice as much coal as the U.S., the next biggest producer, uses …  in February, the impetus for imports to rise is unstoppable. By 2010, demand may reach 2.6 billion tons, 270 million tons more …

…  for energy to fuel its booming economy. The old coal mines that the country relies on cannot keep up with demand and there is …  is looking for new sources of energy and nuclear is top of the list. Beijing wants to build 40 to 50 nuclear reactors over the …

…  news of the midnight accident at the main coal pit at Gangtikuli reached the pregnant young wife of miner Pradip Bauri, …  the villagers, armed with hand tools, were powerless to stop it. “He died a painful death because no one will come in to help us …

…  high-grade ore such as copper, zinc, silica, iron and coal. He said majority of the local mining firms who are applying for an …  foreign and established mining firm,” he said. He said topping the list are foreign applicants from China, South Korea, Africa, …

…  utility Tata Power Co. Ltd. is in talks to buy coal mines in Australia, Indonesia and South Africa to tie up fuel supplies for its proposed 15,000-megawatt capacity expansion, a top official said. The company, which supplies power to the financial hub of …

…  River levee, railroad tracks and the Diamond Cabaret topless nightclub. But a Kentucky coal baron wants to bet big that the experimental coal gasification technology …