Annual coal mining in Colombia represents almost two tonnes per person, more than five kilograms a day, about 40 000 kcal. Colombia sells cheap energy with serious social and environmental costs in these areas of extraction, and also on the beaches of Santa Marta which are badly affected by the transfer of trains and barges full of coal.
Several announcements last week set out a complex planned withdrawal. Vale announced on 20 January that to allow the Japanese company Mitsui to leave the project, buying its 15% of the Moatize coal mine and its 50% of the 900 km railway and port facilities Nacala Logistics Corridor, for $1. But it will take on Mitsui's $2.5 bn debt.
Vale, the world's largest iron-ore producer, announced 1.47 billion of asset sales last year, including a coal mine in Colombia and 10 large vessels, while putting projects on hold in Canada and ...
Coal Mines and Occurrences in Colombia 29 Coal Mines and Occurrences in Ecuador 31 Coal Mines and Occurrences in Guyana 32 ... the rank of coal can vary gradually over many miles and ver tically over hundreds to thousands of feet. In the Andean Region, it …
Rio de Janeiro, January 20th, 2021 - Vale S.A ("Vale" or the "Company") informs that on this date it signed a Heads of Agreement ("HoA") with Mitsui & Co., Ltd ("Mitsui"), allowing both parties to structure Mitsui's exit from the Moatize coal mine ("Moatize mine") and the Nacala Logistics Corridor ("NLC"), as a first step towards Vale's divestment of the coal business.
The inhabitants of El Estor, a town of mostly indigenous Mayans in eastern Guatemala, are living under a "state of siege", watched over by armed soldiers after their years-long fight against a nickel mine took an ominous turn.
Vale (until 2007 Companhia Vale do Rio Doce – CVRD) is a Brazilian multinational mining company and one of the largest logistics operators in the country. It is one of the largest mining companies in the world and also the largest producer of iron ore, pellets and nickel.The company also produces manganese, ferroalloy, copper, bauxite, potassium, kaolin, alumina and aluminum.
The owner of the second-largest coal mine in the U.S. by production volume is planning for the asset's closure as retirement dates approach for several plants that burn much of the mine's fuel. Coal demand in the U.S. has been declining for years, and Arch Resources Inc. announced Feb. 9 that it would be winding down its thermal coal operations ...
Street Talk can reveal that Glencore and Bloomfield have struck a deal to acquire the Integra coal mine complex. The mine, located in New South Wales' Hunter Valley and …
Brazilian major mining group Vale extracts coal from the Moatize mine in the Tete province of Mozambique. In 2012, the board of Vale was planning a $6 billion expansion of the mine with plans to lift output from 11 million tons to 22 million tons per year. The company is planning to build a 600 MW thermal power plant at Moatize.
6) Indian federal police charge 71 anti-Vedanta protesters over 2018 violence. 7) Cerrejon coal and the threat of more mining in northeastern Colombia. 8) Glencore in the news. 9) BHP, Vale and the Samarco tailings dam disaster. 10) Vale under attack over Simandou and Brumadinho. 11) More news about BHP. 12) Anglo American in Zambia and Chile
The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial revolution. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales. By 2011 Kazakhstan ranks in the top ten in terms of coal production and reserves.
BHP's Colombian thermal coal mine is under renewed pressure to close, this time from an arm of the United Nations. UN Special Rapporteur for …
2 The company has been planning its thermal coal exit for at least two years — BHP has already sold a stake in the Cerrejon thermal coal mine in Colombia and is nearing a deal to sell some ...
Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in northern Colombia. The mine is one of the biggest of its kind and extends over 690 square kilometres (270 sq mi). The mine is owned by three giant UK-listed mining companies: BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Glencore. All of which receive billions of pounds in finance from UK banks and pension funds.
A raucous convoy of cars took to the Princes Highway in Wollongong on Saturday to protest against the expansion of the Russell Vale mine. It …
It was announced in September 2011 that Cerrejon coal mine, which owns Colombia's largest coal mine, projected it will export about 32 million mt in 2011, up from 30.2 million mt from 2010.
Campaigners fighting the world's biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK's newest opencast coal mine. The alliance between Sintracarbon and the Wayúu is proof that it is possible for an industrial union hold a meaningful pro-workers agenda as well as standing against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
Cerrejón is an integrated mining and transportation complex in Colombia's La Guajira province, in the northeastern region of the country, which includes an open-pit mine, a 150-kilometres ...
and Power's Australian mining company Wollongong Coal on Monday restarted operation of its Russell Vale mine which had been shut for more than six years, according to a top executive."We would want to do at least 1.2 million tonnes per year in Russell Vale. We have the approval of 3.7 million tonnes extraction, which is valid for up to five years," said the Jindal Steel and …
Vale and Brazil state do not reach agreement over Brumadinho. Vale has not reached an agreement on a settlement for damages regarding the deadly Brumadinho dam disaster and negotiations are currently on hold. ... NGOs file complaint before OECD, …
The Cerrejón mine in La Guajira, Colombia. As South America's largest open-pit coal mine, Cerrejón boasts a production capacity of 32m tonnes per year.
The Russell Vale Colliery (Russell Vale) is an underground coal mine which has been operatingfor more than 130 years. The colliery is in the Illawarra Region, approximately 8 kilometres (km) north of Wollongong and 70 km south of Sydney. Russell Vale currently operates under a Preliminary Works Project (PWP) development consent issued
In 2015, the collapse of a giant waste dam at the Samarco mine in Brazil, co-owned by BHP and iron ore giant Vale, left 19 people dead and became the nation's worst environmental disaster.
Over the years, the headlines on World Coal's reports on the re-establishment of Mozambique's coal industry after almost 20 years of civil war have moved from the optimistic 'Coal Fires Peace and Prosperity' (2008), to the warning 'At the Crossroads As Logistics Threaten Coal Developments' (2009), 'Going Somewhere, Slowly' (2013) and 'A Game of Risk As Rebels Threaten …
Despite a difficult current market, coal remains the fastest growing fuel outside of renewable energy, with consumption growing by 2.5% in 2012. In this month's 'Spotlight Feature Article', from the pages of the August issue of International Mining magazine, Assistant Editor Robert Pell looks at recent project developments and regional patterns within the publication's Annual Coal Review.
Brazilian mining giant Vale
Vale (NYSE:VALE) said on Monday that it would take several years for Brazil's Doce river to recover following a deadly tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine it jointly owns with BHP Billiton ...
El Cerrejon coal mine, Colombia. ... Glencore would take over cashflows from the mine from 2021. ... Vale to receive binding offers for coal business.
BHP and Anglo sold or spun off most of their coal assets, while Glencore has taken a divergent path and set a goal of managing the depletion of …
