From Breakingviews - Miners’ bets on the future of coal are diverging
A worker of state-coal miner PT Bukit Asam shows a coal rock at the open pit mine in Tanjung Enim in South Sumatra province August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo
LONDON, Feb 23 - Investors have a common understanding that coal is the dirtiest energy source. But when it comes to exit paths for the fossil fuel, miners do not see eye to eye. UK-listed Anglo American’s
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