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SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 08 December 2011

Australia's competition watchdog Thursday proposed allowing a group of coal miners to bargain collectively for access to the rail network connecting mines in Queensland state's Bowen Basin with the port of Abbot Point.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 01 December 2011

The government of Australia's Queensland state Thursday selected some of the world's biggest mining companies to build terminals at a planned coal port inthe north of the state that could increase global coal trade by more than a third over current levels.

SOURCE: Dow Jones Newswires | 29 September 2011

Coal developer Aston Resources Ltd.will be able to export an additional 7.1 million metric tons of coalfrom Newcastle Port after signing an agreement with a shipper using the port's NCIG coal terminal, the company said Thursday.