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Universal coal float next month
(Monday, 6 September 2010)
SOUTH African coal explorer Universal Coal is embarking on a $A25 million initial public offering and expects to list on the Australian Securities Exchange in early October.
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Take five: Whan new NSW minerals minister
(Monday, 6 September 2010)
NEW South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally has made some “minor” changes to her cabinet and appointed the state’s fifth minerals resources minister in six years after former minister Paul McLeay resigned his post for using government computers to visit adult websites.
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The political risk of tax hikes
(Friday, 3 September 2010)
ARTHUR J Gallagher partner and political risks insurance specialist Mark Gubbins views royalties and taxation hikes as some of the biggest risks facing resources companies around the world. Can someone tell Julia Gillard?
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Negotiations ramp up with quarterly pricing
(Thursday, 2 September 2010)
WITH a fair chunk of the industry settling its coal on a quarterly basis for the first time this year, Patersons Securities coal analyst Andrew Harrington vents on some of the frustrating aspects of the new regime.
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Qld coal bears brunt of skills shortage
(Tuesday, 31 August 2010)
QUEENSLAND’S coal industry will start feeling the effects of an acute skills shortage as early as next year as new low-emission energy coal seam gas companies start aggressively recruiting skilled workers in the state.
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Report: 7% dive in coking coal
(Tuesday, 31 August 2010)
BHP Billiton has reportedly settled its coking coal price with Japanese steelmakers at $US209 per tonne free-on-board for the next quarter, 7% below this quarter.
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Newcastle oil spill restricts coal loading
(Friday, 27 August 2010)
NEWCASTLE Port Corporation expects coal loading to return to normal today as clean-up operations continue for the oil spill discovered in the Kooragang Basin late on Wednesday.
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New govt must face capacity issues: analyst
(Wednesday, 25 August 2010)
WHILE a final outcome from the weekend’s federal election drags on, BIS Shrapnel has warned Australia’s next government will have to address capacity constraints as the mining boom ramps up in the next couple of years.
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NSW, Qld Greens senators to take on coal
(Monday, 23 August 2010)
NEWLY elected Greens senators in Queensland and New South Wales are openly hostile to coal mining developments and have indicated they will support farmers in any land dispute between agricultural and mining interests.
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The Green unknown
(Thursday, 19 August 2010)
WITH many companies holding off important business decisions until the outcome of the federal election, Australia looks set to face another dangerous period of uncertainty even though markets have largely priced-in a Labor party victory.
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Australia ranks as a risky alternative
(Thursday, 19 August 2010)
AUSTRALIA has taken a caning in this year’s
RESOURCESTOCKS
magazine World Risk Survey, falling 23 places down the ladder of desirable mining locations to finish one place below Bolivia and one spot above Cambodia.
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Coal float sinks
(Wednesday, 18 August 2010)
NATHAN Tinkler’s Aston Resources did not live up to the hype as its shares slumped 4.4% in the company’s debut on the Australian Securities Exchange yesterday.
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Coalspur’s TSX listing
(Wednesday, 18 August 2010)
COALSPUR plans to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange by the end of September.
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Leighton confident on coal demand
(Monday, 16 August 2010)
LEIGHTON Holdings has posted a record profit of $A612 million for the recent financial year and is confident that prices for coal and other key Australian mining commodities will increase in 2011, despite some recent slippage in spot markets.
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Growing global met coal supply
(Monday, 16 August 2010)
QUEENSLAND hard coking coal settled at $US225 per tonne in contracts for this quarter, but prices are tipped to fall in the last three months of 2010.
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Construction begins at Newcastle terminal’s next stage
(Tuesday, 10 August 2010)
THE $A900 million construction of stage two of the third coal export terminal in the Port of Newcastle will begin immediately now that finance arrangements have been secured by the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group, with capacity to be boosted to 53 million tonnes per annum.
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Coal frenzy
(Monday, 9 August 2010)
RECENT corporate activity has indicated a foreign feeding frenzy on Australia’s remaining coal stocks and assets. Mine Life senior resources analyst Gavin Wendt has predicted even more moves coming from India but he is not bullish on the Aston Resources float.
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ACCC grants temporary approval to Wiggins Island coal producers
(Thursday, 5 August 2010)
COAL producers have been given interim permission by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to begin collective negotiations with QR Network for access to its Moura and Blackwater rail systems in Queensland.
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One big snowjob
(Thursday, 29 July 2010)
A VERY angry Sydney Mining Club chairman has given Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Minerals Resource Rent Tax compromise, and several other mining identities, both barrels.
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Coal industry to face hostile Greens in Senate
(Thursday, 22 July 2010)
THE coal mining industry is bracing itself for a scenario where the Greens hold the balance of power and the elevation of outspoken coal critic and New South Wales upper house member Lee Rhiannon to the Senate after the next federal election.
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$6B commodity boost fills MRRT budget hole
(Thursday, 15 July 2010)
BETTER commodity prices will add $6 billion to the federal government's bottom line under the new mineral resource rent tax, with federal Treasurer Wayne Swan admitting yesterday that Treasury had underestimated the likely tax take from the old resources super-profits tax by almost half in its initial projections.
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Keeping tabs on China
(Friday, 9 July 2010)
HOW come Canberra gets worried about BHP Billiton, but not China‘s growing hold on our resources?
The Outcrop
by Robin Bromby.
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Goldman weighs in on MRRT melee
(Friday, 9 July 2010)
CRITICISM of the federal government’s accounting in its compromise deal with the big three miners is growing. A Goldman Sachs JBWere report released this week argues the Gillard government has given up far more tax take than it disclosed.
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Report: Thermal contracts above $100/t
(Thursday, 8 July 2010)
XSTRATA and Rio Tinto have both landed year-long thermal coal contracts with Tokyo Electric Power for $US103 per tonne according to initial reports.
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Coal, iron ore lift trade surplus
(Thursday, 8 July 2010)
A SURGE in coal and iron ore prices helped lift Australia’s trade surplus to $A1.65 billion in May, its biggest monthly record since March 2009, according to the latest figures.
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Approaching the last supper
(Wednesday, 7 July 2010)
WHITEHAVEN Coal shares surged 5% yesterday despite no announcements, as investors suspect it could be the next Aussie takeover target after Thai energy company Banpu moved to acquire Centennial Coal.
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Opposition still plans to kill tax
(Monday, 5 July 2010)
THE federal opposition is still implacably opposed to the introduction of a new mining tax, despite the framework agreement between the big three mining companies and the federal government Friday morning.
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Wesfarmers secures 11% coal price increase
(Tuesday, 29 June 2010)
WESFARMERS Resources’ Curragh mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has increased its metallurgical coal export prices for the September quarter by 11% quarter on current prices.
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Shipments increase from Newcastle Port
(Thursday, 24 June 2010)
COAL shipments from the Port of Newcastle rose 23% last week and ship queues may lengthen if export demand for New South Wales coal outpaces capacity at the port.
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Speaking up for the juniors
(Wednesday, 23 June 2010)
WAYNE Swan is suggesting that the big miners are silencing small miner support for the resources super-profits tax, but Mine Life senior resources analyst Gavin Wendt said the juniors might be hurt even more by the tax.
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