What is it?
Coal burned to make steam and therefore electricity — still, despite everything, one of the largest single sources of power in the world.
Why does it matter?
Coal power is also where a large share of the world's gypsum, fly ash and some germanium supply comes from as by-products.
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 per tonne at a stated energy content (e.g. 6,000 kcal/kg NAR); tonnes alone are meaningless.
Steam coal by calorific value and sulfur.
Price
Thermal coal, Australian price
Annual averageUS$ per tonne
Basis: IMF global price of coal — Australia thermal coal, 12,000 btu/lb, FOB Newcastle. Annual averages as published in FRED (IMF primary commodity prices) · source ↗. These are reference annual averages, not a live market quote.