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Weekly Coal Production

Data for week ended: November 10, 2012  |  Release Date:  November 15, 2012  |  Next Release: November 23, 2012  

For the week ended November 10, 2012:
  • U.S. coal production totaled approximately 19.6 million short tons (mmst)
  • This production estimate is 0.9 percent higher than last week's estimate and 10.7 percent lower than the production estimate in the comparable week in 2011
  • Coal production east of the Mississippi River totaled 8.3 mmst
  • Coal production west of the Mississippi River totaled 11.2 mmst
  • U.S. year-to-date coal production totaled 880.7 mmst, 6.3 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 November 2012 are preliminary EIA estimates.

    State Month ended October 2012 Month ended October 2011 January thru October 2012 Total
    Alabama 1,680 1,415 16,603
    Alaska 187 191 1,806
    Arizona 635 677 6,625
    Arkansas 4 9 57
    Colorado 2,894 2,775 25,070
    Illinois 3,536 3,162 36,513
    Indiana 3,107 3,173 30,721
    Kansas 4 8 24
    Kentucky 8,410 8,538 82,429
    Louisiana 208 303 3,006
    Maryland 167 241 1,745
    Mississippi 163 175 2,381
    Missouri 37 41 365
    Montana 2,450 4,110 30,990
    New Mexico 2,164 1,544 17,996
    North Dakota 2,792 2,670 23,124
    Ohio 2,461 2,417 23,632
    Oklahoma 90 100 895
    Pennsylvania 4,932 4,878 48,443
    Tennessee 126 106 1,191
    Texas 3,504 3,934 33,087
    Utah 1,013 1,809 13,557
    Virginia 1,665 1,800 16,727
    West Virginia 10,862 10,796 104,748
    Wyoming 33,652 39,770 331,392



    • U.S. monthly coal production for October 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