Anglo American derived about 42% of its revenues from mines in South Africa in 2008, and the majority of its operations--including key segments like Anglo Platinum, De Beers and coal mines--are based there.
The Cannock Chase coalfields once supported as many as 48 coal mines - the last, Littleton, closing in 1993.
During Lady Thatcher's tenure as Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990 she oversaw the closure of dozens of coal mines - leading to thousands of job losses - and the year-long miners' strike.
Coal-fired power plants and coal mines are being shuttered at an unprecedented pace mainly because the price of natural gas has dropped so far that it has made coal power uncompetitive.
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It's going to have a huge impact on mining commodities - several coal mines are under water and some won't be operational for months.
Mr. Srivastava added that the government is also keen on allocating more coal mines to power-generation companies in order to raise the production of coal.
Countries whose mines are not mechanized, such as India, Poland and especially China--which mines about a billion tons of coal a year--need infrastructure to support high-tech machines.
In its most recent quarter, however, CLD actually saw coal volume from its company-owned mines decline due to flood-related disruptions in rail transportation resulting from unusually heavy rain activity in the Midwest.
She took on Britain's labor unions and whittled the size of the state through sweeping privatizations and the closure of unprofitable state-owned enterprises, from coal mines to steel plants.
She took on Britain's then-powerful labor unions and whittled the size of the state through sweeping privatizations and the closure of unprofitable state-owned enterprises, from coal mines to steel plants.
More Cat D-11 bulldozers operate in Colombian coal mines than in any other country in the world, but they pay a 5% tariff.
Samasource takes work orders from a U.S. tech company, breaks them down into simple tasks it has dubbed microwork, and sends it off to a partner in say, the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, where most of the other jobs are low-paid, backbreaking work in the coal mines.
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Despite the flood-related shipment disruptions, CLD still expects to produce 93-96 million tons of coal in the current year from its three operated mines.
Led by patriarch Aburizal Bakrie, the family is proposing to buy back its coal mines that were injected into the venture, along with other non-family assets.
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His father, Arthur Jenkins, worked in the coal mines from the age of 12 for 24 years with a two-year break at Ruskin, an Oxford college for working people, and in 1935 became a Labour member of Parliament.
But coal mines cannot be turned on and off and imports are a better way to fill short-term contracts.
Arcelor mines coal and iron, makes coke, has both integrated mills and minimills and has top-notch distribution.
Blankenship, making a contrarian bet that the supply of low-sulfur coal will fall even faster than demand as more eastern miners fold up shop, has bought mines in West Virginia.
That row of decaying goalpost-shaped frames may look like a historic arcade, but it actually supported conveyor belts carrying coal from the mines to the docks.
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