World’s leading Coal producer United States(US) has produced around 18.5 million metric short tonnes (mmst) of Coal during week ended on 21 Jun, 2014 (15-21 Jun, 2014).
US weekly Coal production shows improvement of 1.6% against previous week. However, weekly Coal production registered a growth of 5.3% from comparable weeks of 2013, reported by the US government agency for the week ended on 21 Jun, 2014.
US produced around 463.2 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 10.4 mmst.
Appalanchian, one of the major regions for Coal production, has produced 5.5 mmst of Coal which declined from last week. West Virginia also produced 2.4 mmst of Coal. Mines in Kentucky produced around 1.7 mmst than previous week of 1.6 mmst.
The major Anthracite Coal source, Pennsylvania has produced 1 mmst Coal including 44 thousand short tonnes Anthracite.
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