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 [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Company Report — Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited” company profile to their offering.
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited is a listed company held by Yankuang Group Co., Ltd. in controlling shares, whose shares has been listed in Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai in 1998 respectively. It [...]

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp., announced today that its Pond Creek Location is ready to commence coal production operations pending the issuance of final directional engineering reports “spats” by its internal engineering firm, Alchemy Engineering. Management expects said reports to be issued by July 9, 2008 and plans to update the public with production numbers [...]

America West Resources, Inc., a domestic coal producer with mining operations in Central Utah, is pleased to announce that the Company has officially commenced coal production in Section II of its Horizon mining operations.
“Expanding our mining operations into Section II represents a mission-critical milestone for our Company and one that we have worked very hard [...]

Pan African Mining Corp. announce the closing today of the Plan of Arrangement and related transactions contemplated by the Arrangement Agreement dated May 9, 2008, as amended June 17, 2008, among Asia Thai Mining Co., Ltd., 0819615 B.C. Ltd., the Company and African Queen Mines Ltd., a newly formed subsidiary of the Company. A Final [...]

The Energy Information Administration says data on railroad car loadings shows U.S. coal production totaled about 21.3 million tons during the week ended June 14. The estimate is 2.4 percent lower than the previous week, and 6.6 percent lower than the estimate reported for the comparable week in 2007.
Production east of the Mississippi River totaled [...]

Sultan Mining and Energy Development Corp. (SMEDC) reported its Surigao del Sur coal mine has posted significant increase in sales volumes coal mine owing to a rising demand for the commodity, a company official said.
“For April alone, the production volume of 22,000 metric tons [increased] 120 percent from the previous month. It was also greater [...]

The coal ministry is preparing plans for new projects which will be submitted to the Cabinet in a month, according to Union minister of state for coal Santosh Bagrodia.
Talking to mediapersons here, Bagrodia said though several projects were in the pipeline, the ministry was working on more projects to make the country self-sufficient in coal.
He [...]

Coal production is expected to slow down after a small section of roof collapsed in a Greene County mine.
No one was injured in last weekend’s roof collapse. The collapse was in the Emerald Mine, just south of Waynesburg.
State Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Rathbun says the piece of roof fell on a stage loader, [...]

State-run 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 costs, its chairman said on Monday.
Another government company, Power Trading Corp , also announced plans to buy coal mines in Indonesia, following the footsteps [...]