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Find statistics on coal production, consumption, exports, imports, stocks, mining, and prices.

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Summary

Prices

Reserves

  • Demonstrated Reserve Base
  • Release Date: November 15, 2017|Data from: U.S. Coal Reserves
  • Recoverable reserves
  • Release Date: November 2, 2018|Data from: Annual Coal Report|Interactive data from: Coal Data Browser
    • At producing mines, estimated recoverable, and Demonstrated Reserve Base; by mine type
    • Available formats: PDF XLS
    • At producing underground coal mines by state and mining method
    • Available formats: PDFXLS
    • At producing mines by mine production range and mine type
    • Available formats: PDFXLS

Consumption

Production

  • Detailed data from the EIA-7AXLS and the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (back to 1983)
  • Production, company and mine information, operation type, union status, labor hours, and number of employees

Stocks

Imports, exports & distribution

  • Imports by country of origin
  • Interactive data from: Coal Data Browser
    • Quarterly
    • Data from Bureau of the Census, 'Monthly Report IM 145.'
  • Exports by country of destination
  • Interactive data from: Coal Data Browser
    • Quarterly
    • Data from Bureau of the Census, 'Monthly Report EM 545.'

Coal-fired electric power plants

  • Detailed EIA-860 XLS data back to 2003
  • Capacity, energy source, date of first operation, and planned retirement date for coal-fired generating units

Transportation costs to electric power sector

  • Regular Weekly Releases*

  • Monday

    • Coal Markets (*Formerly Weekly NYMEX Coal Futures and Coal News & Markets)

  • Thursday

  • *No releases: Monday, Tuesday, or Friday. Releases change on weeks with Federal holidays.