Of the bottom five stocks, I recommend only one: coal-mining company Alpha Natural Resources (ANR).
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He then used the money to buy stakes in two coal-mining ventures in Indonesia.
But the real damage was to the local coal-mining industry: work has been suspended pending investigation.
Mr Beshear directed Kentucky to join a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over its coal-mining regulations.
It was an old Mid-western coal-mining town, where there was no more mining, and very few other places to work.
Half a century ago Yubari, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was a coal-mining town with more than 100, 000 people.
Similarly, in parts of Europe, coal-mining is still subsidised for political reasons.
Her first-person narrator, Katniss Everdeen, who hails from a shabby coal-mining area, is a tough, resourceful girl, a huntress who protects her family.
Bumi's current management also announced further steps in its plan to consolidate control of another Indonesian coal-mining subsidiary, Berau Coal, of which it owns 85%.
Mr Abbott kicked off his attack in the Hunter Valley, a coal-mining region of New South Wales, where he branded the tax a threat to coal's future.
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The write-down relates to the company's aluminium and coal-mining businesses.
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Hargreaves is restructuring the ATH operations in a bid to make them viable, while also pledging to use profits towards the restoration of surface coal-mining after operations are complete.
Last week, Hargreaves Services, a coal-mining and logistics company based in Durham, bought the debt linked to secured assets that belonged to another big Scottish coal producer ATH, which was forced into administration in December.
The Bakries, backed by the independent non-executive directors, have offered to buy back Bumi Resources, leaving Bumi PLC with the Berau coal-mining assets in a deal that would leave shareholders with a loss of about 50% on their original investment.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
In the end, Bakrie had to throw two more major assets into GoodCo (company officials will not specify which were added, although creditors say the final group includes shares of the company's most profitable plantation subsidiary, a coal-mining joint venture and petrochemical, electronics and pipe companies).
There is no free lunch whether with coal mining or deep-water drilling, or for those who are honest, in the enormous underlying mining and chemical infrastructure needed to build vast arrays of wind and solar farms.
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Alexander and Ben Cardin, of Maryland, have introduced a bill to ban mountaintop-removal coal mining.
And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
This confluence of dynamics has worked out pretty well for Zouchen-based Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (nyse:YZC), the dominant producer back east that operates its own rail transport network connecting mines and big buyers.
It's going to have a huge impact on mining commodities - several coal mines are under water and some won't be operational for months.
Mining more coal for shipment to coal-to-liquid processing plants and fuel customers would reverse the slide, potentially welcome news for shareholders of Burlington Northern, Norfolk Southern and other rail companies.
Mining more coal for shipment to coal-to-liquid processing plants and fuel customers would reverse the slide, potentially welcome news for shareholders of Burlington Northern, Norfolk Southern (nyse: NSC - news - people ) and other rail companies.
Coal mining accounts for 90% of sales at Joy's underground division and 33% at its surface-mining unit (copper and other ores account for the rest).
That is the point of the National Coal Mining Museum in Overton, about 13 miles south-west of Knottingley, on the site of the former Capstone colliery.
William Ramsay Dow director, Scottish Coal Ltd (Crossford, Fife) - For services to the Mining Industry in Scotland.
Finally, Miller's joint mining venture has now extracted 33% of coal from Ffos-y-fran in South Wales.
Now it had a bulked-up mining division in a country that shovels the most coal in the world.
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Graham Morgan, chairman of Cinderford Regeneration Board, said some of the buildings left in the former coal mining area had "not been touched" since the mid-1960s.
The region had been the soot-coated centre of Germany's coal and steel industries, but mining is being wound down and steel can be forged with many fewer workers.
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