US met coal prices rise as Asian premium HCC market surges

摘要

Atlantic metallurgical coal spotprices rose Monday following strong upwardmomentum in the premium hard coking coalmarket in Asia-Pacific.An extended outage at the North Goonyellapremium mid-vol HCC mine in Australia is beingexpected by the market. Operator PeabodyEnergy said over the weekend that the minewill not produce during the fourth quarter asit battles to control a fire, and while output atthe mine hit 2.9 million st, this year a longwallmove had been planned.