Coal Dust News Monitoring

Former County Durham coal miner died from lung disease linked to coal dust exposure

John William Reeve, 82, died at University Hospital of North Durham on February 20 this year. An inquest into his death was opened by the County Durham and Darlington Coroner last week, and heard Mr Reeve's death was "potentially attributed to his …

BJP National Leader Ponguleti Seeks Relocation of Singareni Coal Bunker, Cites Health Risks to Telangana Village ...

Sattupalli (Khammam) : BJP national leader Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy on Tuesday demanded the immediate relocation of a Singareni coal bunker located near Kishtaram village in Sattupalli mandal, alleging that coal dust and pollution from the facility have …

Beneath the coal dust: Muara Maung villagers pay the price of mining expansion

n South Sumatra's Muara Maung village, coal mining has become an inescapable part of daily life, with expanding operations choking the community's air, land and water leaving residents to grapple with worsening environmental degradation. For 47- …

Trump Orders Review of Federal Judges’ Scientific Evidence Manual

President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence used by federal judges, according to administration officials. The directive, issued in July 2026, instructs the Federal Judicial Center to reassess the manual's …

IN PHOTO: Coal Dust Days in New Waterford

Hundreds of people took to the main street in New Waterford for the annual Plummer Avenue Day as part of the New Waterford Coal Dust Days on Thursday afternoon. Plummer Avenue Day is considered the most-anticipated event on the event’s calendar. The day …

Poland's coal miners are swapping coal dust for clean air

00:37 From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 meters above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the horizon. It's a far cry from basin depths in Silesia – a historic coal mining region in southern Poland where he still extracts the ore …

Richards Bay port bans dust-spewing coal trucks from harbour east gate access

Facing escalating anger from Richards Bay residents, Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) finally succumbed on Tuesday, banning coal-laden trucks from entering or exiting the Port of Richards Bay’s east gate via Medway Road. The unofficial ‘anti-coal …

Summer celebration: New Waterford Coal Dust Days kick off 43rd annual festival this weekend

9 a.m. – Family Yoga with Melissa, Colliery Lands Park 1 p.m. – Museum Scavenger Hunt, Colliery Lands Park 6 p.m. – Ball Hockey Championship, New Waterford and District Community Centre 6 p.m. – Third Annual Bill Corbett Memorial Antique and Custom Car …

Advances in coal dust testing support safety compliance

Research conducted by national research institution the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has demonstrated that coal dust explosibility testing can be performed using a modern international-standard testing system when accounting for …

Rising from the coal dust: Power project development helped turn Homer City into a boom town

Kevin Keegan: true King of the North

In the late afternoon of 16 February 1909, a terrifying explosion tore through the Burns Pit at West Stanley in County Durham. Sheets of flame erupted from the pit shaft, while underground, 168 miners were either incinerated instantly or were choked to …

Indian billionaire Sajjan Jindal’s group invests $160 million in Africa’s first fully electric coal mine

The investment in Tete province will create a 300-megawatt power system to support mining operations, coal processing and rail transport, reducing reliance on diesel while improving efficiency at one of Mozambique’s largest coal projects. Vulcan, a mining …

10 things every British regency family owned

10 Things Every British Regency Family Owned The British Regency officially lasted from 1811 to 1820, although the broader cultural period is often described as extending from approximately 1795 to 1837. It was a time of elegance and transformation, marked …

An embattled coal terminal could be a lifeline for US coal

California, United States – Margaret Gordon had seen her grandson racked with asthma in the early 1990s in West Oakland in California. Fumes from the trucks carrying freight from the nearby port, among the United States’ largest, led to one in five …

Bennet and Hurd team up to shield Glenwood Springs Hot Springs from quarry expansion

Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd don’t agree on much, but when it comes to keeping bulldozers away from Glenwood Springs’ hot springs, the senator and the congressman are of one mind. “Glenwood Hot Springs are part of who we are as Coloradans,” …

Parkites remember Silver King Coalition fire 45 years later

On July 20, 1981, 13-year-old Jillbette Fletcher’s father shook her awake around 4:30 a.m. That’s when she smelled smoke wafting in through the open windows. The 85-foot-tall Silver King Coalition Mine Building, next door to their Park Avenue home, was …

Local historian, former circuit clerk dies at 76

David Deskins Author, local historian and former Pike County Circuit Court Clerk David Deskins, 76, died Sunday, July 19, at the Pikeville Medical Center following an extended illness. Deskins married his college sweetheart, Barbara Patteson Fox, in 1972. …

Local historian, former circuit clerk David Deskins dies at 76

Author, local historian and former Pike County Circuit Court Clerk David Deskins, 76, died Sunday, July 19, at the Pikeville Medical Center following an extended illness. Deskins married his college sweetheart, Barbara Patteson Fox, in 1972. In addition to …

West Virginia has one of the highest chronic disease burdens in the nation. Congress has a plan but hasn't funded it.

I went into pulmonology because West Virginia has some of the worst lung disease in the country. Coal dust. Tobacco. Poverty. Environmental exposures that compound over decades and show up in my patients’ charts long after the damage is done. I trained at …

Driving Industrial Innovation: Weitai Showcases China's Leading High-Quality Hydraulic Products

QINGDAO, SHANDONG, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The global industrial sector is undergoing a significant transformation driven by increasing demands for operational efficiency, durability, and precise energy transmission in heavy …

CNBYG: Advanced Power Quality Systems & Intelligent Power Capacitors for Industrial Grids

CNBYG delivers certified power quality systems and high-reliability intelligent power capacitors for reactive power compensation and harmonic control worldwide. YUEQING, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Poor power quality — …

Chromium Carbide Overlay Plate Quality Evaluation: Key Metrics Referenced from HISAN

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- For teams sourcing wear protection, the central question is not simply which plate is hardest. It is which supplier can actually prove what it sells. A chromium carbide overlay plate, often …

Chromium Carbide Overlay Plate Service Life: Key Factors and Performance Drivers

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- How long does chromium carbide overlay plate last? The service life of a Chromium Carbide Overlay Plate is seldom a single number. Across mining, cement, power generation, port, and steel operations, …

Top Diamond Products Manufacturer Expands Global Cutting Tool Solutions Through Innovation and Precision

ZHENJIANG, JIANGSU, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- As global demand for high-performance cutting tools continues to grow across construction, metalworking, stone processing, woodworking, and industrial manufacturing, **Zhenjiang …

China-Based chromium carbide overlay wear plate manufacturer HISAN: Mining Wear Solutions Showcased at MINExpo

TIANJIN, TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Wear pressure across mining conveying, crushing, loading, and screening equipment is changing how wear plate gets purchased. Price still matters, but procurement teams now weigh material …

Reliable CCO Wear Plate Supplier for Power Plant: HISAN’s Coal Chute Solutions Exhibited at Powergen

TIANJIN, TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Coal chutes sit at one of the most punishing junctions in a power plant’s fuel handling system, where falling coal, sliding abrasion, sudden impact and fine dust all converge on the same …

Selecting Wear Plate for Cement Industry Applications: HISAN's Wear-Resistant Innovation Featured at Cemtech

TIANJIN, TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Wear Mechanisms in Cement Production Cement-plant downtime is usually caused by accumulated wear rather than a single failure. It loses uptime in smaller increments: a hopper liner …

How to Select CCO Plate Thickness: A Technical Guide from HISAN

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- A coal preparation plant replacing a chute liner for the third time in a year is not facing a coating problem. It is facing a thickness problem, usually a mismatch between the overlay meant to resist …

CCO Wear Plate vs AR400 Steel: China-Based Chromium Carbide Overlay Plate Manufacturer HISAN's Abrasion Edge

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- A maintenance team staring down another shutdown to replace a chute liner knows the real question is rarely which steel is harder. It is which material actually survives the wear pattern in front of …

CCO Plate vs Hardox Wear Plate: Heavy Milling Advantages from HISAN, a Professional Wear Plate Factory in China

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- In mining, cement, power generation, steel, and bulk material handling operations, the parts that fail first are seldom the strongest steel in the machine. They are the liners, chutes, hoppers, …

Chromium Carbide Overlay Plate Quality Assurance: ISO 9001 and Cr7C3 Control

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- For heavy industries that battle abrasion every day, sourcing a chromium carbide overlay plate is rarely settled by the product name alone. What decides service life is whether the carbide …

Trusted hardfaced plate solution provider in China: ISO 3834 Welding Quality Behind HISAN CCO Plate

TIANJIN, CHINA, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- In heavy-wear industries, buying a wear plate is no longer the same as solving a wear problem. Purchasing teams in mining, cement, power, port, and steel operations increasingly ask a sharper …

Hypertherm Launches Hyamp™ Cartridge, Adapter and Torch Option for Powermax125®

New technology brings simplicity and enhanced ergonomics to operators HANOVER, NH, UNITED STATES, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Hypertherm Associates, a U.S.-based leading manufacturer of industrial cutting systems and software, has …

Hypertherm、Powermax125®向けHyamp™カートリッジ、アダプター、およびトーチオプションを発売

新技術により、操作の簡素化と優れた作業性を実現 HANOVER, NH, UNITED STATES, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- 産業用切断システムおよびソフトウェアの世界的リーディングメーカーである米国の Hypertherm Associates（ハイパーサーム・アソシエイツ）は、このたび Powermax125® ユーザー向けに、新しいHyamp …

Hypertherm, Powermax125®용 Hyamp™ 카트리지, 어댑터 및 토치 옵션 출시

새로운 기술로 작업자의 사용 편의성과 인체공학성 향상 HANOVER, NH, UNITED STATES, July 29, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- 산업용 절단 시스템 및 소프트웨어 분야의 선도적인 미국 제조업체인 하이퍼썸 어소시에이츠 (Hypertherm Associates) 는 Powermax125® 사용자용 Hyamp™ 카트리지, 어댑터 및 카트리지 레트로핏 토치를 새롭게 출시했다고 발표했다. 새로운 …

XMPro Named a Sample Vendor for Agentic AI in Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data, Analytics, and AI Leaders & Programs, 2026

XMPro's composite AI architecture and governed agentic execution layer is built for the data-and-analytics-integrated agentic AI programs DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, July 28, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- XMPro, the agentic operations platform …

Androco Minerals Acquires 29% Interest in the Chapani Chrome Project in South Africa's World-Renowned Bushveld Complex

Strategic acquisition introduces a high-grade chromite development asset to global markets; DUBAI, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, July 28, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Androco Minerals Gold Trading LLC ("Androco Minerals"), the Dubai-based …

TorqLite Expands U.S. Operations to Help Customers Navigate Today's Supply Chain Challenges

HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, July 28, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Getting the right equipment when you need it shouldn't be the hardest part of keeping a project on schedule. Yet for many companies across oil and gas, power generation, mining, …

Renforth Resources Extends Mineralization Down Dip in All Holes Drilled Into Wholly Owned Victoria Polymetallic Deposit

Renforth Resources Inc. (CSE:RFR) TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, July 28, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Renforth Resources Inc. (CSE: RFR | OTC: RFHRF | FSE: 9RR) (“Renforth” or the “Company”) is pleased to advise shareholders that our drill program on …