Purpose – Indiana is listed among the top ten coal states in the USA and annually mines about 35 million short tons … (million tons) of coal from the vast reserves of the US Midwest Illinois Coal Basin. The implementation and commercialization … of clean coal technologies is important to the economy of the state and has a significant role in the state's energy plan …

Purpose – Coal, a fuel that once dominated the global energy scene, is staging a come‐back despite being … environmentally dirty. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the return of King Coal to find out whether it is likely to be regain … its dominance in the global energy in the future. Design/methodology/approach – In analysing the metamorphosis of the coal …

field. Findings – The underground gold miners make a plan or engage in planisa to offset the production bottlenecks which … highlights the limits of formal organisation of work and the significance of gold miners’ informal work strategy of making a plan … underground miners must recognise, elaborate and systematically articulate the workplace culture of planisa as an existing work …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the main environmental impacts of coal mining in China, examine the … establish a sustainable and environmentally responsible coal mining sector in the context of market and institutional reforms … analyze original data. Findings – The large and fast growing coal industry in China has caused significant environmental …

mining, the paper aims to consider the impact of technology upon the labour process and identity of coal miners. Design … as coal miners, combined with the unusual nature of the job, provides them with a force for mediating management control … with regard to the implementation of new technological processes. Bringing attention back to a traditional industry, coal …

Coal powers the Indian economy. Over 70% of the entire power generated in the country is coal based. Coal India … produces over 84% of the entire country's coal. As coal mining is a capital intensive industry, it is important to maximize … productivity. This paper explores how adoption of “Kayakalp” Model of e- governance in CCL, a subsidiary of Coal India, resulted in …

fixed effects estimator and a hedonic price model of coal purchases in order to determine the implicit price of sulfur. Data … on contract coal purchases are divided into regulatory regimes based on when the contract was signed or re-negotiated. We …

aims at the automation of coal harvesting at a major Australian open cut mine. This mine is located at Morwell, Victoria … and produces brown coal (lignite). The coal from this mine contributes significantly to the power generation in Victoria …

Concerns the logistics system of the Taiwan power company, Taipower, and the problem it faces of coal allocation and … fleet deployment of dedicated coal carriers. The coal allocation problem can be viewed as a multi‐index transportation … problem requiring the formulation of a coal allocation model. Owing to the high uncertainty of shipping operations, formulates …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss and assess the consecutive Governments' policy for coal (1989 … critical analysis of the rationale and effectiveness of government efforts to restructure the Polish coal mining industry in …, amongst other things, in the unwillingness and/or inability to confront the miners' unions, to introduce market mechanisms …