'When rather than if' for new West Coast coal port

A new coal-export port facility on the US West Coast is "absolutely more than a pipedream", Cloud Peak Energy CEO Colin Marshall said on Thursday. Cloud Peak produces coal from three big surface coal mines in the Powder River Basin, and would...

Peabody sends PRB coal to Europe, eyes new W Coast port

US coal producer Peabody Energy is exporting production from its Powder River Basin mines to Europe, and expects to see increasing markets for the coal as resource hungry Asian markets put pressure on global supplies. The company is already...

Peabody Energy eyes 'red hot' Asian coal demand

US miner Peabody Energy has seen already-strong Asian markets become “red hot”, as demand for metallurgical and thermal coal strains supply, president Rick Navarre said on Tuesday. “The demand for met and thermal coal from the...