A devastating gas explosion at the Liushengyu coal mine in Shanxi province has claimed eight lives. Thirty-eight workers remain trapped und...

China is unlocking a new energy frontier with coal rock gas extracted from deep within its coal basins. This ambitious multi-billion-dollar...

Belgian coal miners in 1878 unearthed a remarkable find. Deep underground, they discovered many Iguanodon skeletons. This discovery was sig...

The former coal-mining town of Cumberland is becoming a powerful example of how abandoned fossil-fuel infrastructure can be repurposed for ...

JM Financial views the West Bengal election outcome as a potential boost for power sector governance, driven by expectations of reform unde...

Is there some factor playing out in the market that is not immediately visible? And is that factor an indication that while things are curr...

Freeport-McMoRan announced a slower-than-expected recovery at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia following a fatal flood. The company now antic...

The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth ₹159.51 crore in a West Bengal illegal coal mining and pilferage racket...

A parliamentary panel wants simpler rules for underground coal mining. This method has low environmental impact. Current complex processes ...

South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) has partnered with TMC Mineral Resources in a Rs 7,040-crore agreement to implement paste filling techn...

"Underground (UG) mines are being bid out under commercial auction regime. This idea is to produce at least 10% of India's coal production ...

Goyal said that against the output target of 37.600 million tonnes (MT) from the underground mines in the last fiscal, Coal India produced ...

Coal India plans to incentivise underground mining and consider reopening six such closed mines as contribution from underground mines has ...

Coal India Ltd in order to protect its bottomline has decided to close down the loss-making underground mines.

Leading coal miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) is facing safety concerns for miners in reviving its 18 abandoned underground coal mines.

Public sector Coal India (CIL) is in talks with MMD Asia-Pacific, a European mining company with a strong presence in China, for a possible...

The aim is to step up underground coal production from the present level of 43 million tonne (mt) to 67 mt by 2011-12.