After working in the resources industry for over 20 years, Yancoal boss Reinhold Schmidt acknowledges conditions for coal miners are among the toughest he has seen. “The whole commodity space is quite depressed and in the coal industry all producers whether you’re large or small...

Berdasarkan data Badan Narkotika Nasional dan POLRI 2013, jumlah kasus Narkoba di wilayah Kalimantan Tengah pada tahun 2010 sebanyak  732 kasus. Angka ini termasuk dalam 10 besar provinsi dengan kasus narkoba terbanyak tahun 2010.Kondisi memprihatinkan ini menggerakkan Adaro, dalam hal ini,...

Japan is continuing to re-embrace coal to make up for its lack of nuclear energy, with plans for another power station released bringing the number of new coal-fired plants announced this year to seven. Utilities in Japan are eager to take advantage of coal’s relative cheapness to give...

Wood Mackenzie said Tuesday that coal is facing increasing competition from gas in the power sector. Coal has dominated as the fuel of choice in Asia, even in the gas-centric power markets of Southeast Asia since 2010. In recent years, it has been assumed that coal will remain the most economical...

BEIJING: China produced 240 million tonnes of coal in holiday-shortened February, down 7.7 per cent from a year ago, an industry website said on Wednesday, hurt by orchestrated output cuts in major regions. Csteelnews.com, a website run by the official China Metallurgical News, said that output...

There have been rumors the last few months. And last week we got confirmation of a major shift underway in one of the world’s biggest bulk commodities. That’s thermal coal. Where it looks as if the world’s largest supplier — Indonesia — is on the verge of a collapse in...

Shareholders in the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, could set a tone for the industry this week when they vote on whether to support a plan to make the company smaller. Spurning the bigger-is-better mantra that has characterized the mining sector’s long boom since the...

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/30/no-more-hot-air-infrastructure-jokowi.html President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo pledged on Wednesday to walk the talk in fulfilling his infrastructure development promises, amid worries among investors over the sluggish realization of...

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – Thermal coal futures were firm on Wednesday, consolidating in a lower range, after the market erased gains made on speculation that supply cuts could outweigh weak demand. European API2 2015 coal futures were up 0.9 percent to $58.25 a tonne, after a week of...

India appears set to achieve its decades-long goal of overtaking China as the Asian giant with the fastest growing economy and if that achievement can be sustained it could be the spark which re-ignites the fading Australian coal mining industry. Over the past two years, thanks to low prices and...