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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/03/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) (the "Company") announces that it received confirmation on July 2, 2013 that Mr John Byrne, Chairman and CEO of the Company, sold 6,522,000 common shares in the Company in an off-market transaction at a price of 1.5 cents per share from Arcourt Resources NL (5,932,000 shares), Tiodi Pty Ltd (70,000 shares) and [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/27/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) is pleased to announce that its Annual Information Form (''AIF") has been filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada. This update is available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at www.eastcoal.ca.

Neither the TSX-V nor its [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/25/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) announces that it received notification on 14 June 2013 that on that day John Conlon, Director, sold 5,000,000 common shares in the Company at a price of 2 cents per share. Following this sale Mr Conlon owns 25,161,794 common shares in the Company.

Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/24/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX) (AIM: ECX) today gives notice that the 2012 Annual Report and Accounts (the "Annual Report") has been posted to shareholders. The Annual Report is available on the Company's website at www.eastcoal.ca.

Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts [...]

EastCoal is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced brokered private placement of 351,900,000 common shares of the Company, primarily with existing and new institutional investors, at a price of C$0.02 per Placing Share and, separate to the Placing, certain directors have subscribed for an aggregate of 33,100,000 common shares at a price of C$0.02 (equivalent to approximately 1.28 pence) per Director [...]

EastCoal announces a brokered private placement of 351,900,000 common shares of the Company, primarily with existing and new institutional investors, at a price of C$0.02 per Placing Share and, separate to the Placing, certain directors have agreed to subscribe for an aggregate of 33,100,000 Common Shares at a price of C$0.02 per Director Share. The aggregate gross proceeds of the Fundraising will be C$7.7 million.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/29/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) ("EastCoal" or the "Company") announces its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2013. These are provided in two sections below:


1. Management Discussion and Analysis of East Coal; and
2. Unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/08/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) ("EastCoal" or the "Company") provides clarity on its suspension of trading and announces changes to its Board and management team.

Suspension of trading:

The Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") has for some time been pursuing various refinancing opportunities. Active discussions still continue with a [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/12/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) ("EastCoal" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received TSX-V approval for the conversion of the US$4 million Aponet Enterprises Limited debenture into 17,391,305 common shares of EastCoal Inc. effective 12 March 2013 as detailed in today's earlier announcement. The new common shares, which rank [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/12/13 -- EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ECX)(AIM: ECX) ("EastCoal" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, at the end of February, it restarted its wash plant at the Menzhinsky mine following the completion of engineering improvements and that it expects wash plant production to ramp up over the next few weeks.

The geological challenges experienced at the Menzhinsky [...]