It would allow the mine’s operator, Signal Peak Energy, to mine nearly 60 million tons of coal, mostly for export to Asia. “This is what energy leadership looks like,” Doug Burgum, the ...

The 25 open-cast coal mines of ECL spread over West Bengal and Jharkhand produce 80 per cent of the total coal production of 1,20,000 tonnes per day. In West Bengal, ...

Just before 2 a.m. on April 18, 2018, Amy Price, the wife of the coal executive Larry Price Jr., called the police in Bluefield, Va., to report her husband missing.

The Union coal ministry had allocated this block to HPGCL in 2013. The interim order, pronounced on 22 July, came on a civil writ petition by a firm, M/s Barjora Mining Pvt Ltd, ...

At least three villagers died on Thursday when a portion of a coal mine collapsed in Barjora area of West Bengal’s Bankura district, about 178 km from Kolkata.

The DVC had also operated the Barjora (north) coal mines from 2005, but had to shutter that in 2014 as the Supreme Court cancelled its mining lease finding the allocations “illegal and arbitrary”.

Once Barjora-1, Gangaramrup Chawk, Tara and Panchwara North Coal blocks, allotted to the WBPDCL, start producing, the state would not have to depend on coal from outside.

Hope is fading over the fate of more than a dozen coal miners trapped for weeks deep inside one of northeast India’s notoriously dangerous “rat-hole” mines -- as a rescue operation hobbled ...