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It must take a lot of coal to make steel. The mine I used to work for shipped 3-4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal to Japan every year.
by visiblink 5y ago
It must take a lot of coal to make steel. The mine I used to work for shipped 3-4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal to Japan every year.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIt's about 14-15% of global coal consumption last I checked. That shifts around a bit as use in electrical generation and alternate steelmaking technologies vary. (Electric minimills processing scrap and not requiring coking are a significant source of steel.)