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PIRAEUS, GREECE, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NewLead Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: NEWL) ("NewLead") today announced that the Company has renegotiated previously announced agreements to acquire title and coal excavation rights in 5,000 acres of land in Kentucky containing 18.6 million tons of estimated coal reserves and ownership and leasehold interests in 18,335 acres of land in Tennessee containing 143.1 million tons of estimated coal, natural gas and other natural resource reserves....
BRISTOL, Va., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE:ANR), a leading U.S. coal supplier, plans to report its first quarter 2013 results before the market opens on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A conference call to review the results and current business conditions is scheduled to follow at 10:00am EDT that morning. The conference call will be webcast live on the Internet, and the webcast will be available for replay following the event. The live webcast and the...
Resumed Construction of its 900,000 Metric Ton Coke Production Facility; Construction to be Completed Before Fiscal 2014 Year-End PINGDINGSHAN, China, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chemical Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOK) (the "Company" or "SinoCoking"), a vertically-integrated coal and coke processor, today announced that on April 8, 2013, Henan Province Pingdingshan Hongli Coal & Coke Co., Ltd. ("Hongli") signed a leasing agreement with...
SEATTLE, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- L & L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN) ("L&L" or "Company"), a Seattle-based company with profitable coal operations in China, announced today that the China National Coal Association ("CNCA") has accepted L&L's subsidiary as a member. CNCA is a non-profit organization assisting China's formulation of coal policy and was established after China's Ministry of Coal is dissolved in 1998. The CNCA has approximately 1,000 members comprised...
GORDON F. LEE, CEO, DIRECTOR NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Gold Corporation (OTCQB: FGLD) (the "Company" or "FGLD") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire Carbon Energy Handling, Inc., an Arizona corporation ("CH") from it's owners, including the Company's CEO, Gordon F. Lee. A copy of the Letter of Intent was filed with the Company's Form 8-K on April 8, 2013. CH is a privately held logistics company,...
TORONTO, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Corsa Coal Corp. (TSXV: CSO) ("Corsa" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its common shares will recommence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange at the open on April 11, 2013. The halt was a normal course halt required by the TSXV in connection with Corsa's agreement to acquire Quintana Kopper Glo Investments, LLC announced on March 21, 2013. In addition, the Company announced that it is again increasing its published sales...
PITTSBURGH, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX) was awarded the 2012 Best Completed Deep Mine Award from the Virginia Division of Mined Land Reclamation and the Virginia Mining Association (VMA) for reclamation of its Consolidation Coal Company Vandyke mine in Tazewell County, Va. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120416/NE87957LOGO ) The award, presented during the VMA's 42(nd) annual meeting and awards banquet in Norton, Va., in late March...
Henghe and SES Enter into Exclusive Period for License Negotiation While Project Approvals are Obtained HOUSTON, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hainan Dongfang Henghe Energy Development Company Ltd., ("Henghe"), based in Hainan Province, China, has selected Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. ("SES) (Nasdaq: SYMX) for a large scale, 10 billion RMB (US$1.6 billion) coal waste to synthetic natural gas ("SNG") project in Jiangxi Province, China. The Jiangxi Province project will be...
ST. LOUIS, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Peabody Energy will announce the results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. A conference call with management is scheduled for 10 a.m. CDT on Thursday, April 18. Participants may access the call using the following phone numbers: U.S. & Canada (800) 230-1085 International (612) 234-9959 The call, replay and other investor data will also be available at...
HOUSTON, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Far East Energy Corporation (OTCBB:FEEC) today announced that it will host a conference call to update shareholders and other interested parties on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. CDT and 10:00 a.m. EDT. Michael R. McElwrath, Chief Executive Officer and President, will discuss the current drilling and operations program, and other matters. Conference Call DetailsTo participate in the conference call, participants have the option to...
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Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. It is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. It is composed primarily of carbon and hydrocarbons, along with assorted other elements, including sulfur. Often associated with the Industrial Revolution, coal remains an enormously important fuel and is the most common source of electricity world-wide. In the United States, for example, the burning of coal...
