…essentially amounts to a new mine. Knight, a family-owned high-sulfur coal producer in southern Illinois for nearly two decades, was using the new Prairie Eagle East Portal to shuttle miners into the operation in early September, according to Andrew Carter, who heads…
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Paringa Breaks Ground on New Poplar Grove Mine
…Paringa said in a statement, referring to the region’s high-sulfur coal producers. Both Poplar Grove and Cypress will use the room-and-pillar method featuring continuous miners that are prevalent in the ILB. Paringa added it aspires to become a “midtier” producer in the…
Permitting Concerns Force CONSOL to Change Bailey’s Production Plans
…This operating schedule change will also allow the company to meet its customers’ needs and to immediately recall some of the previously furloughed workers. As a result of increasing the operating schedule to offset the production impact from the longwall move delay,…
Indiana Utilities See Steam Coal Supplies Falling
…the onset of winter. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. was not experiencing any coal supply issues due to the financial struggles of some coal producers, Michael Eckert, senior utility analyst for the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC), told Indiana regulators…
ILB Producers Expanding, Opening New Facilities
Some of the largest steam coal producers in the high-sulfur Illinois Basin (ILB) are seeking to extend existing mines or open new operations as Illinois, Indiana and western Kentucky attempt to claw back production lost over the last few years. ILB output…
The Titans of Texas
…range — went into operation in the last two years and are extracting low-sulfur coal and lignite, operating 24/7. The 4200 SM is 6.53 meters (m) high and has an operating weight of 204,300 kilograms (kg) (225 tons). It is powered by…
Development of the Byerwen Coal Mine in Australia Advances
Macmahon Holdings Ltd., a major Australian-based mining contractor, has executed a preparatory works agreement with Byerwen Coal Pty Ltd. for its new mine, located near Glenden in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, which was recently granted mining leases. Macmahon CEO Michael Finnegan said the…
Armstrong Faces Financial Difficulties
Armstrong Energy, the parent company of high-sulfur Illinois Basin steam coal producer Armstrong Coal, said it may not be able to continue unless it is able to successfully restructure about $207 million in long-term debt with bondholders. The St. Louis-based company, which…
Eagle River Increases Production
…River is one of the few remaining independent mining companies in Illinois, a high-sulfur steam coal state. It is part of the Illinois Basin that also includes neighboring western Kentucky and Indiana. Read the Whole Article in our Digital Edition Share…
Warrior Met Coal Ramping Up to Historical Levels
…plans, the company has updated its production guidance to 6.1 million to 6.5 million tons for 2017. Warrior Met Coal exports a premium hard coking coal (HCC). The HCC that Warrior mines from the Blue Creek coal seam contains very low sulfur…
EIA: Coal Production to Increase in 2017
…than in Kentucky, once the leading coal producer in the U.S. Kentucky’s coalfields are located in both the high-sulfur Illinois Basin (ILB) in western Kentucky and Central Appalachia in eastern Kentucky. The 42.6 million tons of coal mined in the commonwealth last…
Trump to Overhaul US Energy Strategy
…win for Texas and the nation,” said Michael Nasi, general counsel of Balanced Energy for Texas. “An illegal attempt to force states to accommodate an ideological environmental agenda, the CPP represented federal overreach at its worst, threatening to destabilize the Texas electricity…
Reliable Power from Coal
…we need to watch. As we have demonstrated many times in Coal Age, the weather has a marginal impact on base-load electricity demand compared to the demand from industrial and manufacturing facilities running around the clock. Those factories in Indiana and Michigan…
Informational Preferences of Coal Miners
…an interesting comparison related to technology integration and are the focus here. First, these technologies are of varying maturity. The multigas meter is the oldest, with approved methane detectors dating back to the 1950s (MSHA, 2015c). Second, regulated dust monitoring technology dates…
Donkin Coal Mine to Come Online in January
…13,000 Btu/lb, 1.6%-1.7% sulfur and a maximum of 10% ash. The mine was developed for several years by Glencore Xstrata Plc and Erdene Resource Development. Erdene eventually spun off its 25% share to its Morien Resources subsidiary. Xstrata sold its 75% stake…
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