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BUMA Australia to provide mining services at Blackwater mine
This contract is expected to result in a production target of around 36 mcm of overburden removal annually.
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Whitehaven’s Blackwater selldown may be upsized
It’s down to the short strokes at Whitehaven Coal’s sale of a minority stake in Bowen Basin’s Blackwater metallurgical coal mine
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BHP suffers new productivity hit in Queensland coal
It now costs BHP almost seven times more to produce coal than it costs to produce iron ore
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CSX beats quarterly estimates on higher intermodal & coal export volumes
U.S. railroad operator CSX (CSX) reported first-quarter earnings above Wall Street estimates
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Q&A: With Ramaco’s Randy Atkins
Randall Atkins is a founder and chief executive of metallurgical coal producer Ramaco Resources
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BHP cuts Australian met coal sales guidance again
BHP has cut its coking coal guidance for the 2023-24 fiscal year to 30 June to a new decade-low of 43mn-45mn t
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US-Brazil met coal freight slumps as shipowners shift focus to ECSA grains
US-Brazil met coal freight has dipped further, as time-charter rates dropped to mid-$13,000s/d on April 16
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China’s Q1 Production Dynamics and the U.S. Response to Rising Exports
China’s steel industry sees fluctuating trends in production and output in the first quarter of the year
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US Steel Kosice extends blast furnace stoppage on weak steel demand
USSK has decided to extend downtime at one of its blast furnaces due to slow demand for steel across Europe
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Sichuan’s first state-level coal reserve base to begin operations
inaugural national coal reserve base in southwestern China’s Sichuan province is set to commence operations by mid-May’24