Glencore has secured approval from an Australian state planning commission for the extension of its Mangoola coal mine in New South Wales.

An Australian State planning commission on Monday approved an extension to Glencore's Mangoola coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales.

Chinese authorities are rushing to rescue 21 miners trapped at the Xinjiang coalmine in Hutubi County, in the west of China, after the mine flooded over the weekend.

In the first quarter, the production of raw coal, electric power and oil products in the whole region (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the same below) increased steadily.

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has released, for public comment, an amendment to the Electricity Regulation Act, proposing an increase in the licensing-exemption threshold for embedded power generation plants from 1 MW to 10 MW.

The New South Wales (NSW) government in Australia has stopped the development of two coal mines, which include China Shenhua Energy’s Shenhua Watermark coal project.

The proportion was 56.8 percent in 2020 and 57.7 percent in 2019.

Inefficient coal power plants may be forced out of the market in a shorter time frame than expected, he said.