US coal output falls 0.4% year-on-year in week ended Saturday: EIA
Washington (Platts)--8Aug2013/258 pm EDT/1858 GMT
US coal production in the week that ended Saturday totaled about 20
million st, 4% below output in the previous week and 0.4% below that of
the comparable week of 2012, the Energy Information Administration said
Thursday.
EIA, which bases its estimates on railcar loading data, said production
east of the Mississippi River totaled 8 million st in the week ended
Saturday, while output west of the Mississippi totaled 12 million st.
Year-to-date coal production totaled 583.6 million st, 3.4% below that
of the comparable year-to-date period last year, the agency said.
--Jeff Barber,
jeff.barber@platts.com
--Edited by Lisa Miller,
lisa.miller@platts.com
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