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• CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX) Headquarters Receives Environmental Award
• Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal
• CoalSectorStocks.com; Following Coal Stocks and the Coal Industry with New Updated Coal Stocks Directory for Investors
• Water Stocks News - Wescorp Reduces $2 million in Expenses - Company continues to make headway in its expense management
• Water Stocks News - WesCorp Energy, Inc. - Interview With Doug Biles, President And CEO
• Alpha-Foundation Coal Merger Revives $1 Billion Coal Projects, an Industrial Info News Alert

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Coal Sector Research and Articles

• Speculative Buy Recommendation for HOMELAND ENERGY GROUP LTD.(TSX:HEG) with the 12 month target price of $2.15 - RECENT DEVELOPMENT: AGREEMENT WITH COAL PRODUCER
• Speculative Buy Recommendation for HOMELAND ENERGY GROUP LTD. (TSX:HEG) with the 12 month target price of $2.15
• RNCOS Releases Report on Indian Coal Industry Outlook till 2012
• India and China Providing Escape Velocity to Global Aerospace
• INDUSTRY MARKET RESEARCH REPORT On Coal and Other Mineral and Ore Wholesalers in the US

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• Worker killed in accident at W.Va. coal mine (29 Jul 2010 19:10 GMT)  ... Worker killed in accident at W.Va. coal mine Miner dies after being pinned between collapsed ... in W.Va. FAIRVIEW, W.Va. (AP) -- A coal miner has died in a Consol Energy mine ... The death is the 42nd in U.S. coal mines this year, including 29 men who died ...
• EPA Obtains Changes To West Virginia Coal Mine Permit To Significantly Protect Water And Environment (29 Jul 2010 04:50 GMT)  ... EPA Obtains Changes To West Virginia Coal Mine Permit To Significantly Protect Water And Environment ... environmental and water quality impacts associated with coal mining. The improvements to this permit demonstrate once ... partners in the review of proposed surface coal mines in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, ...
• Miner dies after being pinned between collapsed wall, equipment at Consol coal mine in W.Va. (29 Jul 2010 19:10 GMT)  ... FAIRVIEW, W.Va. (AP) A coal miner has died in a Consol Energy mine ... The death is the 42nd in U.S. coal mines this year, including 29 men who died ...

Coal News and Research Resources

• Coal Age
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• Coal News - Coal's Foremost Publication Serving the Entire Coal Industry
• Coal Outlook/CoalTrader
• Coal People
• Coal Portal
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• Coal-Ink
• Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
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• Energy Business Reports - Research Products in the Global Energy Industry
• Energy Information Administration: Coal Stocks at Other Industrial Plants by Census Division and State
• FossilEnergy
• Global Coal Market
• globalCOAL - is the world's premier marketplace facilitator for trading coal and coal related services, information and instruments
• New Fuel Now - Coal News and Stocks

Coalbed Methane News and Research Resources

• Coalbed Methane
• Coalbed Methane Coordination Coalition
• Coalbed Methane Outreach Program

General Mining News and Research Resources

• Bloomsbury Minerals Economics Ltd
• Canadian Mining Journal
• Canadian Mining News - Canadian Mining News Online is your authoritative source for Canadian mining information. Keep informed on the latest mining developments, new precious metal, base metal, oil, gas and/or diamond discoveries. Old Stock research now available.
• Canadian Speculator
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• Dredging News Online
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• Engineering & Mining Journal
• Global Minerals
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• InfoMine
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• Miner's Manual
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• Minerals Engineering International Online
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• MineSite.com
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• China's Fast Growing Economy - Industrialization, Consumption and the Quest for Resources - a discussion on how the world's fastest growing economy impacts sectors including energy-renewable energy, water, coal-steel and healthcare. Participating companies XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX), Vitasti, Inc. (OTCBB: VITSE), Hendrx Corp (OTCBB: HDRX), Puda Coal, Inc. (OTCBB: PUDC), and Bridgetech Holdings International, Inc. (OTC.PK: BGTH) provide insight from a first hand perspective of how smaller companies are feeling the impact and capitalizing on opportunities in China.
• Global steel and coal production are closely linked, in China's current state of development. As the country makes changes to its regulatory control with respect to exploration, a good measure of how things are shifting, can be taken from top companies: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), Mittal Steel (NYSE: MT), Arcelor SA and Puda Coal Inc. (OTCBB: PUDC). Perceptions on how the steel industry is expected to turn this year are offered, along with a snapshot on M&A speculation over the proposed Mittal Steel/ Arcelor deal. If the deal is approved, Mittal offers that a company with a 10% share of the world's steel market could emerge. Coal, an important ingredient in the manufacture of steel, will need to continue to meet the demand of production.
• 'Investing in Near-Zero Emissions' - Exploring the drive towards clean coal technology, an examination of the increasing endorsement and drive towards clean coal technology as a potential means of meeting the growing demand for energy. FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) provides comments on the potential for their Fuel Cell technology to be used in a gasification plant.
• Global Mining Perspectives on Opportunities in Coal, Silver, and Gold - Industry participants, Puda Coal Inc. (OTCBB:PUDC), Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAA; NASDAQ:PAAS), Canarc Resource Corp. (TSX:CCM; OTCBB:CRCUF), and Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX:EDR; OTC.PK:EDRGF) offer a look at mining opportunities in China, India and regions such as Latin America that are raising the bar for production amidst a shifting global regulatory environment, with an examination of how companies are rising to meet the demands of global corporate culture.
• Supply and Demand Issues Fuel China's Automobile, Steel, and Coal Industries - Massive construction projects all over China are spurring the growth in the steel and coal industry as well as in the heavy duty vehicle and commercial vehicle market. Suppliers and participants Mittal Steel (NYSE: MT), PUDA Coal (OTCBB: PUDC), SORL Auto Parts (OTCBB: SAUP), BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), and China Automotive Systems (NASDAQ: CAAS) benefit from China's growing industrial economy.

Featured Articles By Industry Participants

• Beyond China's Coal Fields: Expanding Its Gas Resources - In the first half of 2006, China's total power consumption reached 1.3 trillion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 12.89 per cent over the same period a year ago. But the country only generated 1.23 trillion kilowatt-hours during the first six months of this year - a shortfall of 700 million kilowatt-hours. According to China Electricity Council Secretary-General Wang Yonggan, power shortages will continue to plague China, but he hopes they will somewhat ease.
• Coal Liquefaction Offers Cost Savings, and Environmental and Security Benefits - Wondering what to do with that lump of coal you got in your Christmas stocking? Put it in your gas tank. Through liquefaction, or coal-to-liquids technology (CTL) - the process of converting solid coal into liquid fuels - coal can be made into liquid fuel such as gasoline or diesel and used as a substitute for petroleum products. According to a new report on CTL technology from Energy Business Reports, coal-based fuels can be used directly in today's vehicles, with no need for modification.
• Coal-to-Liquids Technology Offers Promise of Environmental Benefits, Cost Savings, and Energy Security - Through liquefaction or coal-to-liquids technology (CTL), a process of converting solid coal into liquid fuels and/or chemicals, coal can be made into liquid fuel such as gasoline or diesel and used as a substitute for petroleum products. According to a new report on CTL technology from Energy Business Reports, coal-based fuels can be used directly in today's vehicles, with no need for modification.
• Commercialization of Coal Gasification Technologies - Coal gasification offers one of the most versatile and cleanest ways to convert the energy content of coal into electricity, hydrogen, and other energy forms.
• U.S. Mining Industry-Regulations, Projects and Participants - The United States produces a wide variety of commodities from gold to coal. It has a land area of over 9.6 million square kilometers, 19,924 kilometers of coastline, and a population of over 298 million people. It uses 25% of the world's energy reserves and spends more on maintaining its military might than most other country's entire GDP. It is the world's second largest producer of copper and gold, exports over $26 billion worth of minerals and material produced from minerals each year and its mining industry employs over three million people directly and indirectly.

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Coal Industry Experts and Analysts

• Chinese Coal And Market Thoughts, Bears of any kind (i.e., perma or otherwise) continue to find reasons why the markets will collapse any day now. At the same time, the global markets continue to defy all those extremely intellectual observers and have done so for the past four years.
• David M. Khani, senior energy analyst , coal expert at Friedman, Billings Ramsey Group Inc.
• Michael Schrage, CFA, senior analyst covering the metals and mining sectors for Zacks Equity Research.
• The Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC) is an ad-hoc industry group, composed of a diverse array of state, university and business interests. CURC members work together to promote coal utilization research and development and build collaborative, effective partnerships between the various sectors of the coal industry and government to commercialize new coal technologies.
• Virtual Metals is a dynamic team of highly experienced analysts dedicated to understanding and explaining the current and future state of the precious metals markets and other commodities. - click here

Coal Blogs

• Coal Blog
• Resource Investor Blog
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Coal Stock Indices

• DJUSCL DJ US Coal Index
• S&P Sector Indices Brochure
• Stowe Coal IndexSM (Bloomberg ticker: COAL)The Index is comprised of a basket of the securities of 39 companies from around the world that are engaged in the coal industry including coal mining and related activities including transportation, the manufacture of coal mining equipment and the production of clean coal equipment manufacturing and clean coal production, and which derive more than 50% of their total revenues from such activities

Coal Industry Associations

• American Coal Council (ACC) - Is dedicated to advancing the development and utilization of American coal as an economic, abundant and environmentally sound energy fuel source.
• American Coal Ash Association
• American Coal Foundation
• Americans for Balanced Energy Choices
• Canadian Clean Power Coalition - Is an association of responsible, leading Canadian coal and coal-fired electricity producers.
• Coal Association of Canada - Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, represents companies engaged in the exploration, development, use and transportation of coal. Its members include major coal producers and coal-using utilities, the railroads and ports that ship coal, and industry suppliers of goods and services
• Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy (CARE) - Was formed in 2000 to advocate adoption of a comprehensive energy policy that will enable the United States to meet its energy needs, and strike a sensible balance among the nation's social, economic, national security, environmental and energy goals
• European Association for Coal and Lignite - Is the umbrella organisation of the European coal industry.
• IEA Clean Coal Centre - Provides a source of unbiased information on sustainable use of coal world-wide.
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Coal - Clean Coal Power Initiative. DOE is implementing President Bush's initiative to demonstrate an improved generation of coal-based electric power and pollution control technologies that will be environmentally superior to the technologies used in today's power plants.
• World Coal Institute (WCI) - Is a non-profit, non-governmental association of coal enterprises and associations - the only international body working on a worldwide basis on behalf of the coal industry.