…Corp. Prosperity was idled soon after the transaction closed. Sunrise also produces lower-sulfur coal at its Ace in the Hole surface mine in Clay County, Indiana. Ace’s coal is blended with high-sulfur coal for sales to U.S. electric utilities, particularly in the…
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Four Rivers Terminal Opens
…coal was coming from both the high-sulfur Illinois Basin, in which western Kentucky is located, and the low-sulfur Powder River Basin. Four Rivers has an annual throughput capacity of more than 10 million tons. SCH believes the terminal is strategically situated to…
Outlook for the Western Coal-hauling Railroads
…to cover Koraleski stated UP’s “demand for coal is much stronger this year than in recent years. In December 2013, coal inventories were well below historic levels and on average were down 31% from the prior year. Inventories fell further when prolonged…
Murray Completes Foresight Transaction, Furloughs Miners in West Virginia
…join its board of directors. In related news, Murray Energy officials confirmed April 14 that it has laid off more than 200 workers at three of its mines in West Virginia. A total of 59 were furloughed at the Ohio County Coal…
Murray Revises the Terms of Foresight Acquisition
…original deal announced on March 15. Murray said it still will have the same 77.5% incentive distribution rights as provided in the previous arrangement. The two companies, who have been fierce rivals in the high-sulfur Illinois Basin, also agreed to several additional…
Glencore Moving Singapore Office to Oz
According to Reuters, formal documentation was turned over in an Australian senate hearing that it was consolidating the operations of what was Xstrata, the fellow miner it acquired in 2013. “Following Glencore’s acquisition of Xstrata we have integrated Xstrata’s coal marketing business…
People – March 2015
Michael Flannigan Peabody Energy named Michael J. Flannigan senior vice president, global government affairs. He succeeds Fredrick D. Palmer, currently senior vice president, government relations, who has been named special advisor to the Office of the Executive Chairman. Most recently, he served as vice president…
MSHA Approves Strata Atmospheric Monitoring System
…provides live monitoring of atmospheric conditions in everyday operations underground. If gas levels rise above preset thresholds, alarms are triggered and immediate notification is sent to the surface. To further enhance the knowledge of the mine environment post-accident, the Sentro CO sensor…
STB Directs BNSF to Submit Coal Transport Plans
…poor stockpile rebuilding efforts, etc. These were utilities that decades before had committed to purchasing low-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana to meet increasingly stringent environmental laws, companies whose investments had made it possible for BNSF…
4 Former Freedom Execs Plead Guilty in Spill Case
William Tis and Charles Herzing, former owners, officers and directors of Freedom, along with ex-officials Michael Burdette and Robert Reynolds, all entered guilty pleas this week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in Charleston. All four admitted…
Big Rivers Gets Extra Year to Install Pollution Controls
…plans to install both dry-sorbent injection and activated carbon injection technology on Green’s two units and on Wilson’s single unit to reduce mercury emissions. The environmental improvements should allow both plants to continue burning the region’s high-sulfur steam coal for many more…
Solar Sources Continues to Produce High-sulfur Steam Coal
If New York Life Insurance is known as the “quiet” company in that business genre, Solar Sources probably occupies a similar niche in the U.S. coal industry. It is a tried-and-true formula that has worked well for the Indianapolis-based company started by…
Judge Rules Against KCA in TVA Lawsuit
…tons of high-sulfur coal annually. KCA and several landowners argued that TVA failed to fully engage in least-cost planning and, in essence, “predetermined” its decision to retire the two coal units and replace them with a new combined-cycle gas plant. Plaintiffs maintained…
Illinois Produces Highest Level of Coal in 2 Decades
…the CAA’s tighter air quality requirements caused some electric utilities to burn coal with a lower sulfur content than is commonly found in Illinois. As a result, the state’s production steadily fell from about 62 million tons in 1990 to a low…
Log Creek Will Start Producing Coal This Year
…high-sulfur Illinois Basin, arguably the healthiest coal-producing region in the United States. Triad operates several surface and underground mines in Pike and Knox counties in southwestern Indiana, extracting coal from multiple seams including the Springfield, Danville, Millersburg, Bucktown and Hymera seams. Triad…
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