Yancoal has temporarily suspended operations at several Hunter Valley mines in New South Wales for a few days due to poor air quality resulting from bushfires. Dust and bushfire smoke delays impacted overburden activities at the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, which is just out of Singleton,...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss climate activists dumped coal inside a branch of bank UBS on Tuesday to protest against its funding of fossil fuel projects, a day after a judge acquitted 12 climate protesters over a stunt inside Credit Suisse. A witness said 20-30 activists took part in Tuesday’s...

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA - PT PLN (Persero) menyatakan telah melakukan kontrak jangka panjang dengan waktu kurang lebih 5 tahun untuk memenuhi kebutuhan batu bara yang terus naik. Adapun hingga akhir 2019, telah terjadi peningkatan tambahan kapasitas pembangkit listrik tenaga uap (PLTU) hingga 3.017...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s power ministry has asked for coal-fired power plants around New Delhi, the capital city with the worst air quality in the world, to be given more time to install equipment to reduce emissions, after the year-end deadline for action passed. A government...

Jakarta. The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry projects that domestic coal consumption will rise by 12 percent this year, thanks to additional demand from up to eight new mineral smelters. Indonesia is expected to use up 155 million tons of coal this year to fire up its power plants,...

Singapore — The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources set its January thermal coal reference price -- also known as Harga Batubara Acuan, or HBA -- at $65.93/mt, down 0.6% on the month and down 28.7% on the year. Tightened Chinese import restrictions have limited any...

JAKARTA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has decided to keep coal domestic market obligation at 25% and the price cap at $70 per tonne in 2020, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Ministry officials last year said the government was considering lowering...

China’s Shanxi Coking Coal Group Monday set its low sulfur premium hard coking coal prices for the first quarter of 2020 unchanged Monday from Q4. “No price change will be made to premium hard coking coal with a sulfur content below 1.3%, while a variety of price cuts between Yuan...

Australian coal exporters have experienced the biggest annual drop in thermal coal prices in more than a decade during 2019, raising doubts about industry projections that demand will continue to grow. The spot price of thermal coal, which is burned to generate electricity, was US$66.20 ($95)...

(Bloomberg) -- China isn’t cutting back on consumption of the most-polluting fossil fuel just yet, but it is set to reduce imports. The world’s biggest coal buyer will likely purchase less from overseas in 2020 after a boost this year, according to analysts. With domestic production...