LINC Energy has produced the first synthetic diesel fuel from underground coal gas at a demonstration plant in Queensland.
16/10/2008
THE QUEENSLAND Government is yet to approve Cougar Energy’s full-scale underground coal seam gasification project in the South Burnett.
07/08/2009
COAL India (CIL) has rejected proposals from Rio Tinto to develop its abandoned and underground mines, saying the company “falls short of expertise”.
30/01/2009
A COMPANY experimenting with underground coal gasification (UCG) in southern Queensland predicts its trial project will produce synthetic gas by October 2008.
03/09/2008
INTERNATIONAL Resource Holdings (IRH), its reverse-acquisition partner, Clean Global Energy, and British partner, Goldbridge Clean Technology have signed an agreement to provide underground coal gasification technology to China.
24/08/2009
TRAINING Minister Peter Collier has opened a new mining training tunnel which will give students a taste of life as an underground coal miner.
27/10/2009
CARBON Energy is a step closer to producing its first electricity from coal using underground coal gasification (UCG) technology.
17/11/2009
THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Energy Mines Inspectorate has released an official warning on the use of flameproof alternator electrical protection systems in underground coal mines.
20/04/2009
LINC Energy has announced that it has officially opened the world's first coal-to-liquids demonstration using underground coal gasification (UCG) technology.
29/04/2009
COUGAR Energy opened the doors of its underground coal gasification (UCG) project to Kingaroy residents on the 12 October 2009.
13/10/2009
DIVERSIFIED Mining Services (DMS) has received its first delivery of its Australian-made Atlas Copco Coaltram CT10 underground coal utility vehicle.
12/08/2009
INOXIHP Australia has recently expanded its Australian operations with the selection of additional key staff at three of its Head Offices.
09/03/2009
GREENPOWER Energy has signed a Farm-In Agreement allowing Regal Resources to establish an underground coal to liquids process at Greenpower’s Exploration Licence 4860.
20/10/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) has released its research on a new style of lighting system has developed for use on underground machinery, such as longwall shearers, continuous miners and mobile vehicles.
14/05/2009
PIKE River Coal has struck coal after two years of tunnelling at its underground coal mine development in New Zealand’s South Island.
21/10/2008
FELIX Resources has asked the New South Wales Government for approval to develop an open-cut coal mine site near Singleton and to increase production of its underground operation.
26/03/2009
THE BLIGH Government has announced that in 2009-10 it will invest $3.86 million as part of the Carbon Geosequestration Initiative to the identification and evaluation of sites suitable for the safe long-term underground storage of carbon dioxide.
17/06/2009
EESTECH has joined with a clean coal technology group to introduce three clean coal technology plants in India.
22/10/2008
CSIRO has joined with Joy Australasia to commercialise new mining automation technology for underground coal mining.
16/10/2008
THE FIRST graduates from Donaldson Coal's new underground mining training centre at Beresfield are ready to enter the coal mines.
29/04/2009