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The new environment-friendly and safe coal mining hubs will provide up to 250 million tonnes of additional production capacity by 2025, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an article.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline.
Coal dispatch from these mines also recorded a 33.36 per cent year-on-year increase, reaching 190.42 MT in FY25 compared to 142.79 MT in FY24, according to data released by the ministry.
The report highlights that despite a 170 per cent increase in coal production since 1990, fugitive methane emissions have only increased by 0.17 %—suggesting that the apparent climate gains may be overstated due to methodological changes in emissions accounting and unplanned underground mine closures.
A media report is circulating today, March 13, in South Korea saying that a North Korean bulker smuggling coal was involved in a collision and san
China’s coal imports rose 2.1% year-on-year to a record high for the January-February period, official data showed on Friday, as arbitrage opportunities remained open, but risks grew for imports in the months ahead.
Coal dispatch also witnessed a significant surge, with total dispatch for the financial year reaching 170.66 MT.
Australia's reliance on coal-fired power stations has dropped to a record low, accounting for less than 50 percent of its electricity for the first time, the market operator said Thursday.
China’s remarkable thirst for bauxite to manufacture aluminium has helped prop up cape rates considerably in recent years.
India Coal Imports: The decline is attributed to the government’s initiatives to enhance domestic coal production and reduce import dependence.
Coal Sector Growth: For the April-November 2024 period, the coal sector’s index rose to 172.9 points, marking a 6.4% growth from 162.5 points in the corresponding period of the previous year.
In November 2024 alone, coal production from these mines stood at 16.743 MT, with a daily average production of 0.558 MT, marking a 40.9% increase from the daily average of 0.396 MT recorded in November 2023.
India Coal Mining Expansion: Coal India Limited (CIL) will develop 36 projects, Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) will open seven new mines, and NLC India Limited (NLCIL) will add two mines during this period.
India Coal Production: In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union minister of coal and mines G. Kishan Reddy said the ministry of coal has identified 38 critical railway projects to address challenges related to coal evacuation. Of these, five projects have been commissioned, while three are under construction.
A climate change protest off the coast of Australia’s New South Wales State forced an inbound ship to turn back from the country’s largest terminal for coal exports on Sunday, theport operator said.
Brazil is set to import nearly 900,000 metric tons of thermal coal this month, the highest monthly tally on record and three times the monthly average for 2024 so far, according to data from ship-tracking firm Kpler.
The unique auction is being organised by Lay’s Auctioneers, which would also include other artefacts connected to around 150 shipwrecks.
Coal India: "ECL is performing well and is on track to meet its production target of 54 million tonnes this year.
Despite this rapid growth in renewables, coal remains the dominant player in India’s power generation sector. In fiscal 2023-24, coal accounted for 74.7% of the total electricity generated, a rise from 71.5% in 2020-21.
India Coal Import: According to data compiled by B2B e-commerce platform mjunction, "During April-August 2024, total coal and coke imports stood at 121.18 MT, around 11.4 per cent higher than 108.74 MT imported during the same period last year."
The facility in Hami city is just the latest in a series of coal-to-oil developments greenlit in recent years in the mining hubs of Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.
India has increasingly relied on coal to address record power demand, with the rise in coal-fired power output earlier this year outpacing renewable energy growth for the first time since at least 2019.
Statistics show that coal production surged by 32 Percent , reaching 79.72 million tonnes (MT) compared to 60.52 MT in the corresponding period last year.
As of September 29, 2024, the total coal stock at the country's Dispatch, Collection, and Billing centers amounted to 33.46 MT, a significant rise of 51.07% from 22.15 MT on the same date in 2023.
