Russian steel maker Mechel said on Wednesday it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion (750 million pounds) in cash to acquire ferro-chrome producer Oriel Resources as it expands its ferro-alloy business.
Mechel, Russia’s largest coking coal producer, said it would pay 219.86 U.S. cents per share in Oriel, a Britain-based company that operates a ferro-chrome [...]

Bulgaria’s regulatory authorities have cleared ArcelorMittal subsidiary Mittal Steel Holdings AG to buy a number of Russia-based coal mining assets from Severstal (RTS: CHMF), the regulator said in a statement.
ArcelorMittal said on January 31 that it was buying a number of coal mining assets in [...]

SHARPE RESOURCES CORPORATION: Sharpe has completed letters of intent agreements and deposits to purchase interests in two separate coal mine properties in Eastern Kentucky for $850,000. The projects are expected to close in less than 30 days. One of the projects is located in Pike County, Kentucky and the other is located in Lawrence County, [...]

Coal prices for power generators at Australia’s Newcastle port, a benchmark for Asia, fell to a five-week low of below $125 a tonne, due to tepid spot market demand and increased supplies from China.
Thermal coal prices fell $5.22 from a week earlier to $124.36 a tonne, the globalCOAL’s NEWC weekly index showed in the week [...]

India’s Era Engineering Innovations (EII) has committed an investment of US$5 million into coal-powered energy generation in Zambia following the just-ended Conclave on Indo-Africa Project Partnership in New Delhi.
Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, who led the Zambian delegation to the meeting signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EII director, Ajay Mishra over [...]

Chhattisgarh has earned around Rs.7 billion royalty on coal, bauxite and iron ores during the first nine months of the current fiscal 2007-08, officials here said Monday.
The state, which has nearly 18 percent of the country’s total coal deposits and about 20 percent of nation’s iron ore reserves, earned Rs. 8.32 million royalty revenue in [...]

Ispat Industries’ promoter Pramod Mittal-owned Global Steel Holdings Limited has signed up mining leases for iron ore and coal reserves in Brazil, Colombia and Mozambique.
A GSHL spokesman confirmed the development, saying it has signed multiple iron ore leases with Brazil and for thermal and coking coal exploratory blocks with Colombia and Mozambique.
While the spokesman [...]

The government ordered a $420,300 fine after finding safety violations at a Utah coal mine.
Federal regulators say they assessed the fine against Andalex Resources Inc. for accumulations of coal dust and hydraulic oil on equipment at the Aberdeen coal mine in 2006 and 2007. The mine is near Price in Carbon County.
The government says dust [...]

Anglo American said Tuesday three of its coal mines open coal supply to electricity utility Eskom has closed because of rain.
“They are all closed. They are not in operation at present, “spokesman Pranill Anglo Ramchander said.
Ramchander said he was unsure when Denmark and New Kriel collieries in the province of Mpumalanga and New Vaal in [...]

India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) said it has won a 28 mln eur order from a unit of China-based Zhongyuan Coal Chemical Industry Group, for the supply of a coal gasifier and cooler assembly.
In a regulatory filing, the country’s largest engineering and construction group said the order was won by its heavy engineering division [...]