Coal mining news

MSHA has donated to four organisations for training programmes that support the recognition and prevention of safety and health hazards in underground mines.

Somerville House students have joined the BMA Make It Now in Engineering (MINE) Challenge for the first time.

The minerals industry is a significant contributor to the Victorian economy, employing 121 000 people and making a total direct and indirect contribution to the state in 2015/16 of AUS$13.6 billion

For every direct job in the resources sector across Queensland another six full time jobs are supported indirectly, reports QRC.

The initiative forms part of Austrade’s Accessing Global Value Chains trade strategy.

The company achieved a 6% increase in total production on a copper equivalent basis in 2Q18, compared to 2Q17.

3.3 million t of coal were produced from the Solntsevsky Coal Mine, Russia, owned by the East Mining Company in the first half of this year, 240% higher than the indicators of the same period last year.

Alongside the recapitalisation of the company, Bowie Resource Partners has appointed new senior executives.

Export results of the Queensland resources sector have hit an all time high, the QRC reveals.

On 25 June 2018, the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement (OSMRE) announced that approval has been given for a mining plan which will extend the life of mine at Sufco mine in Utah.