One of the last great relics of coal mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania may be dismantled and sold for scrap - or preserved as a monument to a bygone industry.
Either way, the owner of the Huber Breaker - a huge, hulking, boxy steel-and-glass structure once used to crush, wash and sort anthracite coal - is determined [...]
Brazil’s Minas Gerais state government has shut down local bauxite mining company Rio Pomba Cataguases after an environmental accident, state news agency Agência Minas reported.
Specifically, a residue dam ruptured in Miraà city, releasing some two million cubic meters of mud into the Fubá river.
The material is not toxic, the report said, adding that Rio Pomba [...]
The mining of iron ore could become a new source of income for Perak, replacing tin mining which in the past had been a major source of income for the state.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali said the state government had received many applications from companies keen on carrying out iron ore mining.
He, however, [...]
A Malaysian company is building what it says is the world’s first plant to commercially produce ethanol from nipah palm trees, with the product aimed mainly for export to countries looking for alternatives to gasoline, its chairman said Saturday.
Pioneer Bio Industries Corp. Sdn. Bhd. said it is building the plant in northern Perak state to [...]
Mirabela Nickel, an Australian company planning to develop a nickel mine in the Brazilian state of Bahia, has won environmental approval for the project.
Construction on the Santa Rita nickel sulfide project can begin once an environmental management plan and feasibility study has been approved.
The project is on schedule to get all necessary licenses by April.
Prime Minister John Howard urged Australia’s regional governments to end bans on new uranium mines that prevent the nation from tapping soaring demand for the reactor fuel.
The nuclear power boom provided a “timely opportunity,” Howard said today, releasing a government report that supported an end to the bans, enrichment of the metal for use in [...]
A coal-based clean oil project will be developed in northeastern China’s Jilin Province, an official with US-based Universe Gas and Oil Co. said.
Zhang Shuang, an official with the company, said Universe Gas and Oil planned to invest RMB 400 million ($51.28 million) in the project, with 500,000 [...]
The federal mine safety agency yesterday published a final rule requiring mine operators to provide more emergency breathing devices, better evacuation training and a quicker response during accidents.
The federal rules were finalized after the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration held a series of public hearings on a set of temporary, yet stringent, mine safety [...]
Nine out of almost 50 oil workers being held hostage at an oil production facility in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta have escaped, a senior manager at the oil company Agip said on Thursday.
An Agip spokesman in Lagos said the Tebidaba flow station, located deep in the mangrove creeks of Bayelsa state, was still under occupation [...]
PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of millions of tons of waste coal are lying around the mines of Pennsylvania and nearby states, and that gets John Rich excited.
Rich is president of WMPI, in Gilberton, northeastern Pennsylvania, where he is setting up the first plant in the United States to turn waste coal into diesel fuel.
“This will help [...]
