Germany's power plants run on hard coal remain an important back up to guarantee supply when volatile wind and solar power ...

The mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises. Turkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.

The move marks a significant milestone in the redevelopment of the premium hard coking coal mine. The shipment was sent to the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal and exported to an Asian customer last week.

A major focus of the social, political, and economic pressure to divest is coal mining, especially thermal coal. The fossil fuel is used to generate 34% of the world's electricity but produces ...

Miners were given quotas to fulfil, he told me, estimated at around three tonnes of anthracite (a form of hard coal) a day by the NKHR report. Not meeting it could mean no meal ticket which meant ...