One of the world’s leading coal producers, US’s weekly Coal production totaled approximately 19.0 million metric short tons (mmst). Production has dropped by 3.5% in comparison to last week and up by 4.9% from comparable weeks in 2012, reported by the US government agency for the week ended 30 Nov, 2013.
US Coal production during the week which ended on 30 Nov, 2013 from east of the Mississippi River totaled 7.3 mmst and from the west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.8 mmst.
According to the agency, the United States total Coal production including Coking, Non-coking and Anthracite reached to 919.8 mmst which was dropped by 1.8% in comparable year-to-date (YTD) Coal production in 2012.
United States’ one of the major region for Coal production, Appalanchian has produced 4.9 mmst of Coal which is 14.5% less from previous week. West Virginia has produced around 2.0 mmst Coal than last week’s 2.3 mmst. Mines in Kentucky also produced around 1.5 mmst than previous week’s 1.8 mmst.
The major Anthracite Coal source Pennsylvania has produced 0.9 mmst Coal including 40 mmst Anthracite.
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