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Weekly Coal Production

Data for week ended: October 20, 2012  |  Release Date:  October 25, 2012  |  Next Release: November 01, 2012  

For the week ended October 20, 2012:
  • U.S. coal production totaled approximately 19.2 million short tons (mmst)
  • This production estimate is 0.8 percent higher than last week's estimate and 11.1 percent lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2011
  • Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 8.2 mmst
  • Coal production west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.0 mmst
  • U.S. year-to-date coal production totaled 822.2 mmst, 6.0 percent lower than the comparable year-to-date coal production in 2011
  • As of the week ending September 15, 2012, all of 2011 production has been revised to match the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) final 2011 production and second quarter 2012 production has been revised to match MSHA production. These changes are present in the Revisions/Archives section, and are also reflected in the "Current Weekly Estimates" and "Current Monthly Estimates" tables in the year-to-date and 52 weeks ended totals. These changes are not reflected in the two Original Estimates tables.


    EIA revises its first-round weekly estimates of State-level coal production using Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) quarterly coal production data. After revision, EIA's State-level weekly numbers summed for the quarter, match the MSHA data.

    Data for 2011 through June 2012 are revised to match MSHA. Data for July 2012 through October 2012 are preliminary EIA estimates.

    State Month ended September 2012 Month ended September 2011 January thru September 2012 Total
    Alabama 1,428 1,555 14,923
    Alaska 163 166 1,619
    Arizona 561 686 5,990
    Arkansas 6 9 52
    Colorado 2,616 2,820 22,175
    Illinois 2,842 3,443 32,977
    Indiana 2,779 3,184 27,614
    Kansas 4 3 20
    Kentucky 7,808 9,317 74,019
    Louisiana 245 356 2,798
    Maryland 129 267 1,578
    Mississippi 278 293 2,219
    Missouri 32 38 328
    Montana 3,298 3,834 28,541
    New Mexico 1,914 1,483 15,832
    North Dakota 2,131 2,321 20,331
    Ohio 2,110 2,321 21,171
    Oklahoma 80 90 806
    Pennsylvania 4,350 5,054 43,511
    Tennessee 107 149 1,065
    Texas 3,100 4,179 29,584
    Utah 1,129 1,550 12,544
    Virginia 1,470 1,771 15,062
    West Virginia 9,660 10,550 93,886
    Wyoming 33,363 38,574 297,740



    • U.S. monthly coal production for September 2012


    thousand short tons
    Data Tables * Format
    Current Weekly Estimates
    Current Monthly Estimates
    Original estimates
    1st week in 2002 — current week
    January 2002 — current month
    * The current weekly estimates and current monthly estimates tables contain data revised to the most recent MSHA data available as of the posting date of the table

    Revisions / Archives