| 1. | Lake Vermont produces hard coking coal and low volatile PCI coal.
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| 2. | All these mines are in Queensland state, which produces most of the hard coking coal.
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| 3. | This will bring hard coking coal prices to about US $ 54 per metric ton.
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| 4. | There are many hard coke plants as well.
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| 5. | Both fields contain Bituminous Hard Coking Coal.
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| 6. | Hard coking coal prices rose marginally.
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| 7. | Previously, hard coking coal was priced at about US $ 53 to US $ 54 a metric ton.
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| 8. | However, in practice, deliveries of hard coking coal in 1996-97 should be similar to those in the current year,
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| 9. | Weak or soft coking coal is used to blend with hard coking coal to provide a coke of the appropriate characteristics.
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| 10. | BHP Australia Coal, which negotiated the hard coking coal price, took a 1.2 million cut in tonnages to 5.8 million tons.
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