Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is pleased to announce first coal production from its Kendal Mine in the Witbank area of South Africa, approximately 50km east of Johannesburg. To date, approximately 8,000 tonnes of coal has been mined from the first of three open pit areas. Processing of the coal through the Company’s Parnaby wash plant [...]

Jade Technologies has raised S$9.6 million to fund a coal mining project in Indonesia.
The company placed out about 134 million new ordinary shares at 7.2 Singapore cents each to three investors – a UK Fund, CC Asia Advantage Master Fund; and two private investors, Jeffrey Hing Yih Peir and Ong Boon Kheng.
For Mr Hing and [...]

After meeting in closed session for almost two hours, Fayette County officials reported that negotiations on the sale of the county’s coal bed methane rights are continuing.
That announcement came about two hours after a local organization that represents a large number of Fayette County farmers asked the board to take its time and consider all [...]

The Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) has withdrawn its proposed coal-mining project in Isabela after a decade of dispute with church leaders, environmentalists and local residents.
Fr. Tony Ancieta, leader of the Isabela Anti-Coal Mine Alliance, said during a dialogue with residents and environmentalists in the province, PNOC president and chief executive officer Eduardo Mañalac announced [...]

Venezuela’s government plans to look for a new partner to create a joint venture to development the Socuy coal-mining project in the Mara area of Zulia state.
“Socuy is one of the concessions that is not currently producing, so we need to open a range of options for companies interested in entering a JV,” José Ramón [...]