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GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER - ILLAWARRRA COAL
(Thursday, 4 June 2009)

BHP Billiton is all about smart technology, innovation and great talent. If you want a challenging career and a chance to explore resource opportunities as well as your ambitions, we're the company for you. Think Ahead. Think BHP Billiton.
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MINE PROFILES 
Foundation’s Rockspring Camp Creek: full speed ahead
(Monday, 8 June 2009)

DESPITE being idled for nearly a decade in the 1980s and ’90s, the Rockspring complex in Wayne County, West Virginia, has come back with even greater force and boasts five sections – four of them supersections – as well as a strong safety trend and a healthy production level of 3 million tons. By Donna Caudill
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MINE ACTIVITY 
Breath of air for New Elk
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

ACCESS to Cline Mining’s New Elk operation in southern Colorado has been reopened following the installation of a new mine air ventilation system.
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MORE MINE ACTIVITY

Kestrel cleans up with tomatoes and basil


Skyline earns regional safety award


Bucyrus helps Russian record-breaker


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COAL COMPANY ACTIVITY 
Special solutions for special situations
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

EVER-evolving JH Fletcher and Company has introduced a new low-seam mobile roof support while touting the continued benefits of an old standby, the LHD underground horizontal drill.
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MORE COAL COMPANY ACTIVITY

Drilling directions


Newcastle plan is well received


Breath of air for New Elk


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OEM/SUPPLIER ACTIVITY 
Special solutions for special situations
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

EVER-evolving JH Fletcher and Company has introduced a new low-seam mobile roof support while touting the continued benefits of an old standby, the LHD underground horizontal drill.
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MORE OEM/SUPPLIER ACTIVITY

Sandvik’s Supersite for the Hunter Valley


Bucyrus plows into Poland


BASF picks Strata for new product line


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COAL MARKETS 
ANZ: coal could bounce
(Wednesday, 1 July 2009)

WHILE spot thermal coal from Newcastle has plummeted 10.5% in the past fortnight, ANZ analysts can see a possible turnaround.
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MORE COAL MARKETS

Thermal coal prices lose recent gains


Dryblower on the return of the bankers


Signs of demand recovery


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SAFETY AND HEALTH 
Flashback
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

DOES your back hurt just looking at this? Whether or not you’ve spent time working underground, it is easy to empathize with the pain this coal shoveler must have been feeling when this photograph was taken, circa 1930.
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MORE SAFETY AND HEALTH

Coal train derails in GA


Quecreek fines still in question


MSHA earmarks $US500K for safety grants


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ENVIRONMENT 
India ducks tough emissions policy
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

INDIA will spare its coal industry from a carbon emissions policy, confirming fears that proposed emissions targets for Australia and the USA will not be adopted in developing countries.
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MORE ENVIRONMENT

Kestrel cleans up with tomatoes and basil


Industry reacts to Waxman-Markey Bill


EPA preparing for CMM conference


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EDUCATION 
Fail to plan, plan to fail
(Tuesday, 30 June 2009)

The value derived from good mine planning is often underestimated as many mines steer their attention and recognition to the more immediate and easily recognised successes made by the day-to-day operational “bush fire” fighting. Too often, the focus shifts to building and supporting an efficient operations team, at the expense of mine planning.
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MORE EDUCATION

A lesson in retrenchment


Skilling Queensland


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Special solutions for special situations
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

EVER-evolving JH Fletcher and Company has introduced a new low-seam mobile roof support while touting the continued benefits of an old standby, the LHD underground horizontal drill.
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Drilling directions
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

Will economic instability and new regulations unbalance the new direction taken by underground coal mining in directional drilling?
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Newcastle plan is well received
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

PORT Waratah Coal Services has shed more light on the new industry-agreed plan to manage coal exports out of Newcastle, with major producer Coal & Allied voicing strong support for the progress made.
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   CURRENT FOCUS FEATURES

Hunter Valley Focus

Sandvik’s Supersite for the Hunter Valley

Newcastle overhaul by next year

Contracts and wagons for Pacific National

Coal & Allied soldiers on

NCIG keeps timetable

Hunter business gears up for M&E

Hunter’s industrial property market

United longwall to close

HVCCLT wins innovation award

Wallarah longwall project steps forward




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UPCOMING FOCUS FEATURES

AUGUST : APPALACHIAN SPOTLIGHT
SEPTEMBER : AUSTRALIAN LONGWALL STATISTICS 2008/09
OCTOBER : EXPLORING THE BOWEN BASIN

   TODAY'S STORIES CONTINUED


Breath of air for New Elk
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

ACCESS to Cline Mining’s New Elk operation in southern Colorado has been reopened following the installation of a new mine air ventilation system.
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DBCT upgrade complete
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

THE $A1.3 billion expansion of the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in Queensland has been completed, with the port facility now capable of exporting 85 million tonnes of coal per annum, a 50% jump in capacity.
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India ducks tough emissions policy
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

INDIA will spare its coal industry from a carbon emissions policy, confirming fears that proposed emissions targets for Australia and the USA will not be adopted in developing countries.
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Flashback
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

DOES your back hurt just looking at this? Whether or not you’ve spent time working underground, it is easy to empathize with the pain this coal shoveler must have been feeling when this photograph was taken, circa 1930.
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Coal train derails in GA
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

NO injuries have been reported following the derailment of 17 CSX coal train cars just south of Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday.
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Quecreek fines still in question
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

SEVEN years after the water inundation accident that trapped nine workers at the Quecreek operation in Pennsylvania, a federal panel feels a $US110,000 fine assessed to the operator should be reconsidered.
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More Gloucester board changes
(Thursday, 2 July 2009)

GLOUCESTER Coal has appointed former Deloitte partner Greg Fletcher as an independent non-executive director as part of its board shake-up after Noble Group fell short of a complete takeover of the coal producer.
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Sandvik’s Supersite for the Hunter Valley
(Wednesday, 1 July 2009)

SANDVIK Mining and Construction will shortly start building its Hunter Valley Supersite, a move to integrate a number of the company’s businesses into a single operation.
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Newcastle overhaul by next year
(Wednesday, 1 July 2009)

NEW South Wales Ports Minister Joe Tripodi has announced the lodging of an application with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission for the long-term solution to managing coal exports out of Newcastle, with the new system to kick in early 2010.
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Bucyrus plows into Poland
(Wednesday, 1 July 2009)

POLISH mine operator Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka has placed an order with Bucyrus for a complete automated plow longwall for its Bogdanka mine, the first time such a system has been sold to the country.
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