World’s leading Coal producing country, United States(US) has produced around 19.4 million metric short tonnes (mmst) of Coal during week ended on 26 Jul, 2014 (20-26 Jul’14).
US weekly Coal production shows improvement of 2.6% against previous week. However, it registered a decline of 4.4% from comparable weeks of 2013, reported by the US government agency for the week ended on 26 Jul, 2014.
US produced around 557.3 mmst YTD Coal, including Coking, Non-coking & Anthracite, which is slightly lower than the comparable YTD Coal production in 2013.
Coal production during week-end from East of the Mississippi River totaled 8.2 mmst and from the West of the Mississippi River totaled 11.2 mmst.
Appalanchian, one of the major regions for Coal production, has produced 5.3 mmst of Coal that declined from last week. West Virginia also produced 2.2 mmst of Coal. Mines in Kentucky produced around 1.6 mmst than previous week of 1.7 mmst.
The major Anthracite Coal source, Pennsylvania has produced 1 mmst Coal including 43 thousand short tonnes Anthracite.
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