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China approves Gansu coal mining plan 
China Daily
China Daily
China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, has approved the plan to build a...
International Coal Group Mining Operations Earn Three Prestigious West Virginia Safety Awards
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Arch Coal's Black Thunder Mine Surpasses 4 Million Employee-Hours With Perfect Lost-Time Safety Record
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Australian company to commence coal mining in India
The Hindu
The Hindu
Special Correspondent Enters into agreement with a consortium of six sponge iron producers...
Mountaintop mining: Coal baron debates a Kennedy
The State
The State
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The real audience for the debate between coal baron Don Blankenship and conservationist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not the hundreds who packed the audience at the University of Charleston. Those...
Australian mining magnate secures coal export deal with China
China Daily
China Daily
CANBERRA: Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer said Saturday his company has secured Australia's largest coal export deal with China. The Resourcehouse chairman said the company had reached...
![Magadan (Russian: Магада́н) is a port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region. It is the administrative center of Magadan Oblast (since 1953), in the Russian Far East. Founded in 1929 on the site of an earlier settlement from the 1920s, it was granted the status of town in 1939. From 1932 to 1953 it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy concern and its corrective labor camp system. It lies in Nagayevo Bay in the Gulf of Tauisk. Population: 114,873 (2008 est.);[citation needed] 99,399 (2002 Census);[3] 151,652 (1989 Census). Ship building and fishing are the major industries. The town has a seaport (fully navigable from May to December) and a small international airport, Sokol Airport. There is also a small airport nearby, Magadan 13. The unpaved Kolyma Highway leads from Magadan to the rich gold-mining region of the upper Kolyma River and then on to Yakutsk.](http://cdn1.wn.com/vp/i/ef/b5604cdb0f3feb.jpg){kind=small}
