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Table Of Contents

Conference News
Conference Updates
Complete Conference Line-Up

CPSA News
Department of Commerce Web-based Seminars
Coal and Mining Web-Based Seminars

Industry News
Clean Air Violations
Massey mine to receive safety award
Mining companies seek to reclassify Greene County stream for coal plant
No power plant aids N-aquifer Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement to be reactivated
Botswana: Multi-Million Drilling Starts At Mmamantswe Coal Mine
Indonesia's Adaro coal output to rise 5 pct in 2008
Severstal Sells Coal Assets
Coal News and Markets


Conference News

Conference Updates
Wednesday, April 30 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Session III Sequestration & Coal Conversion
Chair: Bill Kalb, TraDet, Inc.
New paper added:
10:30 am - 11:00 am
India - Opportunities in Coal Beneficiation Sector
Arup Mitra, Senior Commercial Specialist, Department of Commerce
V.K. Sahay, General Manager (Washeries), Central Coalfields Limited.


Complete Conference Line-Up
The final program and schedule for the Coal Prep conference is complete. Register before April 28th and save up to $35! Click Here to view the Schedule at Glance.


CPSA News

Department of Commerce Web-based Seminars
The Department of Commerce (DOC) is offering a series of web-based seminars to promote U.S. exports of coal and mining equipment to overseas markets. The first sessions focused on market opportunities for U.S. companies in the coal and mining sectors of Peru, Chile, Brazil and Columbia, and upcoming sessions will highlight Australia, Turkey, Poland, and South Africa.  Overviews for the China and India markets are scheduled for July.  Each session is led by the DOC’s Commercial Service energy specialist in-country and is targeted towards U.S. companies interested exporting to the specified country.

Click here for registration information.

Coal and Mining Web-Based Seminars
Opportunities for U.S. Companies in Overseas Coal and Mining Markets

For additional information the 2008 Coal and Mining Webinar Series and registration procedures, please contact Shannon Fraser (Shannon.Fraser@mail.doc.gov, 202-482-3609) or Steve Murray (Steve.Murray@mail.doc.gov, 412-644-2819).  Please note that these sessions will be recorded and disseminated to registrants after each event.

Click Here for a list of Seminars




Industry News

Clean Air Violations
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with American Energy Corp. on alleged clean-air violations at the company’s coal preparation plant at 43521 Mayhugh Hill Road, Township Highway 88, Beallsville, Ohio. The agreement, which includes a $40,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that AEC failed to comply with testing, notification and reporting requirements at the plant that processes coal from a coal mine. Read More...

Massey mine to receive safety award
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration plans to give a safety award to a Massey Energy Co. underground mine where two men were killed in a January 2006 fire. Massey announced the award for its Aracoma Coal Co.'s Alma No. 1 and Hernshaw mines Monday. The award recognizes Aracoma for having no lost-time injuries while miners worked 574,000 hours at the mines in 2007. MSHA also is giving the same award to a Nicholas County coal prep plant, Massey said. Read More...

Mining companies seek to reclassify Greene County stream for coal plant
The South Fork of Ten Mile Creek curves lazily beneath arching sycamores as it flows through hills and farm fields west of here. It holds small-mouth bass that hit harder than a punch and one of its tributaries once supplied water for this Greene County seat. Now, though, Baltimore-based Foundation Mining LP wants to knock out the protective "High Quality Warm Water Fishery" tag hung on the South Fork and its tributaries in 1979, when Pennsylvania first classified its streams. Read More...

No power plant aids N-aquifer Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement to be reactivated
The Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement is being reactivated, however the preferred alternative, which includes the C-aquifer pipeline, reportedly will be eliminated. John Stucker, senior mining engineer for the Navajo Nation Minerals Department's Surface Mining Program, said Friday that with the closure of Mohave Generating Station, Alternative A is no longer necessary, because the coal slurry pipeline that transported coal from Black Mesa Mine to Mohave is no longer operating. Read More...

Botswana: Multi-Million Drilling Starts At Mmamantswe Coal Mine
Dual-listed energy concern Aviva Corporation has started a $3 million reserve upgrade drilling programme at its 1.3 billion tonne Mmamantswe coal Project. Aviva managing director Lindsay Reed said the resource estimate affirmed the project as very low strip ratio open pit thermal coal deposit. "The resource base has the potential to supply six million tonnes per annum to both a 1,500MW power project and/or direct coal sales to the power sector in South Africa. Aviva is now focused on advancing the project through drilling to deliver a significant resource upgrade," Reed said. Read More...

Indonesia's Adaro coal output to rise 5 pct in 2008
PT Adaro Indonesia, the country’s number two coal miner, expects its coal production to increase by about 5 percent to 40 million tonnes this year, an Adaro shareholder said on Tuesday.
Sandiaga Uno, whose investment fund Saratoga Capital owns 32 percent of the coal mining firm, said that Adaro is “still on track” to raise between $400-500 million in its initial public offering , probably around September. Read More...

Severstal Sells Coal Assets
The international metallurgical giant ArcelorMittal has completed the acquisition of coal assets from Severstal, the Russian steel producer said in a statement today. According to the document, ArcelorMittal paid $652m for nearly 100-percent stakes in the Berezovskaya and the Pervomayskaya mines, producing coking coal in the Kemerovo region. Read More...

Coal News and Markets
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