What is it?
Coal of the specific quality that, when baked without air, turns into coke — the hard carbon that both fuels and chemically drives a blast furnace.
Why does it matter?
It is not burned for electricity. It is a chemical reagent: the carbon strips the oxygen off iron ore. That is why steel is hard to decarbonise.
Deeper written sections for this material have not been published yet. Everything below is drawn straight from the source datasets and is complete.
Read the numbers correctly.
Quoted as hard coking coal, semi-soft or PCI grades — different products at different prices.
Washed coking coal, then metallurgical coke.
Mines that produce it
All mines →
Where it is processed and refined
| Plant | Kind | Stage | Country | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Rotterdam Bulk Terminals | Port | Processing | Netherlands | Input |
What it is used for
All end markets →| End market | What it does there | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Construction & Steel | Blast-furnace reduction | Defining |
Follow it across the borders
All journeys →Where a consignment of this material actually goes — every country, every custodian, and what is left behind at each step.
Pilbara iron ore to Chinese steel The largest material flow on Earth: dig it, crush it, screen it, and put it on a boat.