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At the time, coal was selling for about a quarter of the price of natural gas ($1.5 versus $5.0 per million BTU); however, the ratio has since become much smaller (as of 2010, coal has tripled in price to $4.63/mil BTU while gas is still at $5.189). [4] [6] (Natural gas is used as an alternative to thermal coal in electricity production.)
1.3 2001–2009. 1.4 2010 - 2011: Peabody predicts long-term supercycle in coal prices. 1.5 ... the Shoal Creek Seaborne metallurgical coal mine from private coal ...
Metallurgical coal or coking coal [1] is a grade of coal that can be used to produce good-quality coke. Coke is an essential fuel and reactant in the blast furnace process for primary steelmaking . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The demand for metallurgical coal is highly coupled to the demand for steel.
Metallurgical coal miners Walter Industries and Alpha Natural Resources are trading at prices not seen in 10 years. There is blood in the streets as the sector contends with oversupply caused by ...
Big coal's last best hope, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which is the missing puzzle piece required to create a truly 'clean coal' energy plant, is dead. The death of CCS, which has not ...
In 2011, Walter Energy paid $3.3 billion for Western Coal, materially increasing its focus on metallurgical coal right before that market started to falter. At the end of 2012, Walter took a $1.1 ...
In November 2018, Contura merged with Alpha Natural Resources to become America's biggest supplier of metallurgical coal. [4] Even though the combination let Alpha Natural Resources emerge from bankruptcy, the first year was a difficult one; lower coal prices, and higher production costs at mines where it makes the type of coal burned at power plants.
CLF Total Return Price data by YCharts.. BHP Billiton (NYS: BHP) resists sector weakness through the diversity of its extractive operations, particularly in copper mining, but iron-focused miner ...