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Incline Screen 0HONE s&AX % MAILTABOR ELGININDUSTRIESCOM WWWELGINSEPARATIONCOM OCTOBER 2018 VOL. 123 NO. 8 feature articles PREP PLANT CENSUS/18 VENTILATION CONTROLS/30 18 2018 US Prep Plant Census Owners make investments to improve processing operations 30 Retrofit-ready Solutions Target Primary Needs With a market increasingly in search of options, suppliers promote solutions that speak to efficiency and safety concerns for brownfield projects 34 New Techniques for Tackling Corrosion CORROSION/34 SUPPLIERS NEWS/40 As the saying goes, rust never sleeps, but mine and plant operators are waking up to new technologies for controlling it coal in the news 4 Bowie Becomes Wolverine, Moves to Utah 4 Mission Coal Files for Chapter 11 4 Peabody Will Acquire Shoal Creek Mine 4 Westmoreland Files for Bankruptcy 5 Contura Energy, Alpha Natural Resources Amend Merger 6 Ramaco Develops Alternative Plan at Berwind Mine 6 Judge Denies FES Request to Reject Murray Energy this issue Coal Supply Agreement 7 Paringa Signs Second Coal Supply Contract for This month, Coal Age turns its attention toward coal beneficiation with New Poplar Grove Mine its annual U.S. Prep Plant Census. On the cover, Paringa Resources’ 8 Indiana Coal Mining Rebounding Poplar Grove plant, America’s newest coal preparation plant. 10 Solar Sources Resumes Coal Production at Cannelburg Mine 11 Bluestone Resources Adds 290 Jobs at West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia Coal Mines 12 NRP, Foresight Resolve Legal Dispute 12 JRL Achieves Production Milestone departments world news 2 Editorial 4 News 5 Peabody Fights Fire at Australian Longwall Mine 5 World News 5 Kameron Faces Pushback From Fishermen in 11 People Nova Scotia 13 Awards 6 Coal Sector Reforms Hit Wall in India 14 Calendar 7 South32 Finalizes Purchase of 50% Interest 38 Operating Ideas in Eagle Downs in Australia 40 Suppliers News 42 7 Turkey Transfers Operating Rights to Product News 46 Private Companies Classifieds 48 Legally Speaking 8 Russian Coal Transport by Rail Increases 8 Exxaro Expresses Interest in South32 Coal Assets in South Africa 8 China Clamps Down on Thermal Coal Imports 8 Ukraine’s Coal Imports Continue to Climb October 2018 www.coalage.com 1 editor’s note Emerging Asian Opportunities s the fourth quarter begins, U.S. coal production is track- www.coalage.com Aing about 3% less than last year. If that remained the case for the rest of the year, total U.S. coal production would be a Mining Media International, Inc. little more than 763 million tons. Many of these numbers lag 11655 Central Parkway, Suite 306 Jacksonville, Florida 32224 U.S.A. and a lot could change between now and the end of the year. Phone: +1.904.721.2925 The news section opens this month with two bankruptcy Fax: +1.904.721.2930 reorganizations: Westmoreland Coal and Mission Coal. While they are two more casualties that are working to get their fi- Editorial nancial affairs in order, readers should notice a fair amount of Publisher & Editor-in-Chief—Steve Fiscor, [email protected] Associate Editor—Jennifer Jensen, [email protected] good news in that section as well. A number of small and me- Technical Writer—Jesse Morton, [email protected] BY STEVE FISCOR dium size producers have announced some good results and Contributing Editor—Russ Carter, [email protected] PUBLISHER & certain regions are seeing growth. Some of this growth is due EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Latin American Editor—Oscar Martinez, [email protected] to a buoyant export market. Graphic Designer—Tad Seabrook, [email protected] The latest figures available (year-to-date August 2018) show exports tracking about 18 million tons above where they were this time last year, 78 million tons vs. Sales 60 million tons. Steam coal exports are up about 10 million tons and met exports are Midwest/Eastern U.S. & Canada, Sales—Victor Matteucci, [email protected] up about 8 million tons. While exports by destination are up in general across the Western U.S., Canada & Australia—Frank Strazzulla, [email protected] Scandinavia, UK and European Sales—Colm Barry, [email protected] board, coal exports to Asia have increased 12.8 million tons (9.5 million steam and Germany, Austria & Switzerland Sales—Gerd Strasmann, [email protected] 3.3 million met). 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2 www.coalage.com May 2016 news Bowie Becomes Wolverine, Moves to Utah “In conjunction with the recent management changes and re- capitalization of the company, we wanted to offer our employees a fresh start and new identity with the name change,” Grech said. “Our workforce is tough and resilient, very much like a wolverine, so we think our new namesake will resonate very well with our employees and the communities in which we operate.” Peabody Will Acquire Shoal Creek Mine Peabody Energy has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine located on the Black War- rior River in Alabama from private coal producer Drummond Co.