INTERNATIONAL COAL NEWS

US coal production plunges 32%

US year-to-date coal production totaled 245.2 million short tons, 32.5% lower than the comparable...

Lou Caruana

Estimated US coal production totaled approximately 11.7Mt for the week ended May 21, 2016.

This production estimate is 2.9% higher than last week's estimate and 27.2% lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2015.

East of the Mississippi River coal production totaled 4.5Mt and West of the Mississippi River coal production totaled 7.2Mt.

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