It was unclear how many protesters were seized by the police. The state-run Xinhua news service reported Thursday that five people had been detained on vandalism charges as of Wednesday.

Kementerian Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral tengah mendata perusahaan-perusahaan pertambangan batubara dan melakukan verifikasi perizinan tambang.

The biggest floods in Queensland, Australia, in half a century are turning into a windfall for U.S. coal mining companies anticipating record profits and the highest exports in 15 years.

Australia’s devastating floods could remove over 5 percent of steelmaking coal from world markets this year and lift prices by a third or more, analysts estimated.

BEIJING – An explosion at a coal mine in central China killed 26 miners who were working despite an order to halt production, officials said Wednesday, while a mine tunnel collapse elsewhere