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Reading reports and commentaries about what is likely to happen in the Chinese steel market produces, as so often, a swag of opinions that contradict each other – sometimes more than...

Whichever way you look at it Australian coal mines are just not working at the productivity levels achieved five and even ten years ago.

The lightning pace of the internationalisation of China’s currency, the renminbi, has caught even the most hardened Sinophile on the hop. Energy Publishing looks at the impacts on the global market.

The railway, which links Mozambique's coal mines in Tete province to Beira in the south some 470km away, was shut after heavy floods washed away ballast, bridges and culverts close to Beira in the Zambezi Valley.

Trying to forecast near term variations in Indian coal imports can be difficult. To begin with, real time data essential to driving such an outlook are hard to standardize and vary significantly across sources.

Craig Wiggill, executive director of UK-based Thukela Resources, said recently that miners operating in the southern Africa country of Mozambique had to “get back to reality”.

Indian Finance Minister Mr Chidambaram announced proposals to equalise import duties last Thursday when he unveiled the budget in Parliament for the financial year beginning April 2013.

On the sidelines of Coaltrans India in Goa today there was palpable tension about the upcoming JFY settlements and the implications they will have on the market with one producer saying they are "potentially the most important thermal settlements we have.

The Argus Power Generation Fuels conference held in Sydney recently was told there was some concern that despite plentiful gas reserves throughout Australia’s eastern seaboard, there remained significant questions about the sustainability of developing...

Could this be the end of China as a major coal importer? After all, this is China we are talking about and there are plenty prepared to stake a claim that this will never be the case.