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Prices

  • Average sales price
  • Release Date: November 19, 2025 | Data from: Annual Coal Report | Interactive data from: Coal Data Browser
  • By state and mine type
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Open market and captive sales price by state
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX|Interactive
  • By state and underground mining method
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • By state and county, with number of mines
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • By state and coal rank
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX|Interactive
  • By mine production range and mine type
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • By coal rank
  • Release Date: September 27, 2012 | Data from: Annual Energy Review, 1949 through 2011 (discontinued)
  • Available formats: PDF XLS
  • Average delivered prices to end use sector by Census division and state
  • Release Date: November 19, 2025 | Data from: Annual Coal Report | Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Price of coal shipments to the electric power sector, by Census division, and state
  • Available formats: Interactive

Reserves

Consumption

  • Quarterly
  • Release Date: July 1, 2026 | Data from: Quarterly Coal Report
  • By sector
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • At manufacturing plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX

Production

Stocks

  • Quarterly
  • Release Date: July 1, 2026 | Data from: Quarterly Coal Report
  • By consuming sector and by producers
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • At coke plants by Census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • At other industrial plants by Census division and state
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • At manufacturing plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • At commercial and institutional users by Census division and state
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Coke and breeze stocks at coke plants by Census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX

Imports, exports & distribution

  • Quarterly
  • Data from: Bureau of the Census, 'Monthly Report IM 145.'
  • Back to 2002
  • Available formats: XLS| Interactive
  • Quarterly
  • Data from: Bureau of the Census, 'Monthly Report EM 545.
  • Back to 2002
  • Available formats: XLS| Interactive

Metallurgical coal

  • Coke Summary statistics
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Coke and breeze production at coke plants
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • U.S. metallurgical coal exports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average price of U.S. metallurgical coal exports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Metallurgical coal exports by customs district
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • U.S. coke exports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average price of U.S. coke exports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • U.S. coke imports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average price of U.S. coke imports
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Coal receipts at coke plants by census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average price of coal receipts at coke plants by census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Open market sales and average price of coke and breeze
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • U.S. coal consumption by end-use sector
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Coal carbonized at coke plants by census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • U.S. coal stocks
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Coal stocks at coke plants by census division
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Annual
  • Release Date: November 19, 2025 | Data from: Annual Coal Report
  • Coal disposition by state
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average number of employees and number of mines by state and coal type
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Average sales price of U.S. coal by use and disposition
  • Available formats: PDF XLSX
  • Data from: International Energy Statistics

Coal-fired electric power plants

Transportation costs to electric power sector

  • Regular Weekly Releases*

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

  • Thursday

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

  • InteractiveInteractive Coal Data

  • browse pre-defined or custom data views, graph or map data series down to the mine level
  • Coal data browser
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