Q: a subsidiary of China's Yanzhou coal Mining company Limited is planning to purchase an Australian coal company. Some say that this action may affect Australia's power supply.

问：据报道，中国兖州煤业附属公司近日拟收购澳大利亚一煤矿公司，有评论称这可能影响到澳大利亚的电力供应。

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Don Blankenship, CEO, Massey energy: "Most coal mined by surface mining cannot be deep mined... energy resources would be lost if not surface mined... our company is an energy company," he added.

Massey Energy的首席执行官Don Blankenship表示：“采用地表采矿，大多数煤炭不能深采…不采用地表采矿，会造成能源损失…我们公司是能源公司。”

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Company is Shanghai's largest local and comprehensive utilization of coal mining enterprises.

公司是上海本地最大的煤炭开采和综合利用企业。

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It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, which ended in 2011.

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This confluence of dynamics has worked out pretty well for Zouchen-based Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (nyse:YZC), the dominant producer back east that operates its own rail transport network connecting mines and big buyers.

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