Coal (from the Old English term col, which has meant "mineral of fossilized carbon" since the 13th century)[1] is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary ...
1844: February, The B&O Railroad signs its first commercial contract to carry large scale shipments of coal from Mt. Savage, Maryland to Mt. Clare, Maryland.
Coal mining, the first step in the dirty lifecycle of coal, causes deforestation and releases toxic amounts of minerals and heavy metals into the soil and water.
Whitehaven Coal is getting ready to hire the 450 workers it will need to run the controversial Maules Creek coal mine. Despite a decision to stop clearing the Leard ...
About Rio Tinto Coal Australia. An abundant and relatively cheap energy source, coal plays an important role in the global energy mix. Rio Tinto Coal Australia is one ...
Last week was a tough one for the U.S. coal industry, already hit by competition from inexpensive natural gas, tougher environmental rules and a global coal glut that ...
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Welsh Journals Online provides free access to scholarship from Wales. Back-numbers of up to 50 titles are available here, ranging from academic and scientific ...
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity ...
Appalachia, a region of extraordinary beauty and natural diversity, is under attack. Mountaintop removal is strip mining on steroids—a radically destructive form of ...
BHP Billiton is cutting 700 workers across its Queensland metallurgical coal business, as the miner continues to take an axe to costs in the face of depressed prices ...
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Home. Ports Australia is the national peak body representing the interests of government owned and privately owned ports as well as marine regulatory authorities in ...
Johannesburg - Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) announced on Monday that the South African Department of Mineral Resources had granted a new mining right to its wholly ...
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