Atlas Mining unit to invest P12 B to reopen Toledo mine; Used to be biggest coal mine in the Far East.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Carmen Copper Corp., wholly-owned unit of Atlas Mining Consolidated and Development Corp., is investing P12.475 billion to reopen and rehabilitate the Toledo mine in Cebu, which used to be the biggest coal mine in the Far East. The project was among the...

Red past. Green future? Sustainable development for Ukraine and the post-communist nations.
The methane explosion that blasted through the Gaegova coal mine last October added seven names to the list of nearly 4,000 Ukrainian miners killed in accidents since 1991. Newspaper reports said the victims were suffocated or crushed beneath tons J of coal. Several other miners were injured or poisoned....

Semirara Mining hit for inadequate disclosure.
Byline: JAMES A. LOYOLA The attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange is being called to the alleged selective and inadequate disclosures by listed firm Semirara Mining Corporation on the outcome of cases involving land claims in its coal mine site. ...

Protect national treasures.
Byline: The Register-Guard Oregonians have no shortage of reasons to hope Congress finishes the job of overhauling the nation's 135-year-old mining law. Most prominent among them are the many polluted mine sites that have pocked and poisoned this state's backcountry. There's another reason that's less...

Around The Nation.
MM to expand in size - NHA Metro Manila will eventually expand to become Greater Middle Luzon once shanty families living along railroad tracks are relocated to decent housing villages and both the Northrail and Southrail lines service regularly commuters working in what is now Metro Manila....

Pombo's giveaway.
Byline: The Register-Guard Western governors rarely agree on any issue, whether it's salmon or logging. So when the governors of Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington join to warn against a plan to permit the bargain-basement sale of millions of acres of federal lands, Congress...

Out and about.
Lee Karen Stow visits Conkers, the new National Forest attraction that has sprouted from the ashes of the mining industry When Rawdon Colliery at Moira, the last deep coal mine in the Midlands coalfields, closed in 1991, up to 1,600 jobs were lost and land was left...

Natural Resource Partners Acquires Coal Reserves from Cline Group.
InDEFENSE-15 December 2006-Natural Resource Partners Acquires Coal Reserves from Cline Group(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Natural Resource Partners L.P. has executed a definitive agreement to partner with The Cline Group, a private coal company that controls over 3 billion tons of reserves in the Illinois and Northern Appalachian...

Preview: Martha Wittman.
A coal miner's granddaughter, Martha Wittman invokes her hardworking ancestors in Imprints on a Landscape: The Mining Project. A multimedia work for 14 dancers ages 10 to 72 affiliated with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, it draws from oral histories and trips into now-defunct Pennsylvania mines. Themes of endurance amid...

Burden of Gilt.
The Mineral Policy Center was established in 1988 as a service bureau to educate and assist citizens' groups concerned with mineral threats to the environment and to lobby for reform amendments to federal mining law. Burden of Gilt is a thorough report on hardrock mining and the environmental damage...