Peter Meredith, Chief Executive Officer of SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd., and Gene Wusaty, Chief Operating Officer, Coal Division, announced today that the company has received independent laboratory analysis of a recent bulk sample that confirms high volatile, high-fluidity metallurgical coking coal at the Mamahak coal project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. SouthGobi owns 85% of the [...]

Chuitna River residents are going to court to fight a coal mine being built in their area.
Residents filed an appeal with the Alaska Superior Court Monday.
The suit challenges Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin’s refusal to consider a petition designating land within the Chuitna River watershed as unsuitable for surface coal mining.

Environmental groups across Appalachia spoke out at public hearings in four states on a Bush administration-backed proposal to relax restrictions preventing mining activity near waterways.
The groups oppose exempting valley fills , in which rubble from mountaintop removal mining is dumped in nearby valleys , from the 20-year-old rule restricting mining activity near streams.
“Enough is enough!” [...]

A hearing got heated Wednesday during discussion of proposed rule changes for surface coal mining.
Wednesday’s hearing inside the Holiday Inn was one of four hearings going on simultaneously across surrounding states.
According to the US Office of Surface Mining, the rule changes will reduce the environmental impacts of surface coal mining and give operators clear [...]

Village President Ken Fuller this week presented the head of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) a petition urging the department to declare an area near Banner unsuitable for coal mining. Reports of geological studies, archeological findings, and other documents also were presented.
Fuller drove Tuesday to Springfield and delivered hundreds of pages of documents [...]

Mining the Beluga coal fields across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula may put a spark in the Southcentral Alaska economy, but conservationists say it also will endanger rich salmon spawning streams and add significant pollution to the local atmosphere.
PacRim Coal LP, the company developing the Chuitna Coal Project located within the Beluga deposit, is [...]

As declining oil and gas resources in Alaska and across the globe come under increasing market pressure, developers are eyeing the profit potential of the Beluga coal field deposits.
One such undertaking already well along in the environmental impact process is the Chuitna Coal Project, a surface coal mining and export venture proposed by PacRim Coal [...]

A mining and gas drilling company announced Tuesday that it has received $117 million in funding to expand its business.
Targe Energy, an Aspinwall, Pa.-based surface coal mining, gas drilling and coal reclamation company, received the bulk of the funding from the New York-based Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund III, L.P.
Targe operates [...]