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[Shawna]

I have 5 tons of coal in the basement right now, and am expecting another 5 tons sometime next week.

How much does 10 tons of coal cost normally?

Depends on the type of coal and where you live.

Around here, I can get bituminous and anthracite coal.

Bituminous is mined locally.  It is cheaper, but it's smoky and makes a lot of ash:  $100/ton (Nov. 2009 prices)

Anthracite is mined in Pennsylvania and imported in 50# sacks.  It makes very little smoke or ash, but it is like trying to light a rock:  $269/ton (Nov. 2009 prices).

Depending on the price of gas, delivery runs about $50-$75 per truckload.  The truck can hold about 5 tons.  So, 10 tons would have cost about $1100 last Fall, if I had paid full price.  For bituminous.

I still have almost a ton left, so we should be good for the rest of the cold season.  I was getting a little nervous in February, but the weather finally broke this week.  Phew!  I won't need to ration heat after all!

OK, that was probably more than anyone really wanted to know about coal.  Sorry.

[JustMyron]

OK, that was probably more than anyone really wanted to know about coal.

Incorrect. <Files information away for later use in Random Thoughts thread, or perhaps a discussion which will inevitably occur at some point in the future concerning the costs of various sorts of energy, resource-based economies vs. manufacturing or services based economies, the Australian economy, or the US energy sector>.

 

[ReasonIsOutToLunch]

OK, that was probably more than anyone really wanted to know about coal.  Sorry

Actually I find it fascinating. I find most things fascinating, but you in particular write very well.

[Sita]

Depends on the type of coal and where you live.

Around here, I can get bituminous and anthracite coal.

Bituminous is mined locally.  It is cheaper, but it's smoky and makes a lot of ash:  $100/ton (Nov. 2009 prices)

Anthracite is mined in Pennsylvania and imported in 50# sacks.  It makes very little smoke or ash, but it is like trying to light a rock:  $269/ton (Nov. 2009 prices).

Depending on the price of gas, delivery runs about $50-$75 per truckload.  The truck can hold about 5 tons.  So, 10 tons would have cost about $1100 last Fall, if I had paid full price.  For bituminous.

I still have almost a ton left, so we should be good for the rest of the cold season.  I was getting a little nervous in February, but the weather finally broke this week.  Phew!  I won't need to ration heat after all!

OK, that was probably more than anyone really wanted to know about coal.  Sorry.

Hey you can talk to me about coal, it's an interesting subject.  My grandfather used to be a miner in an anthracite coal mine that was located a few blocks from our house.  The mine is no longer operational, it closed many years ago.  We used to heat our house with coal when I was a kid.  I can still remember shoveling coal into the furnace.

[Shawna]

Ooooo!

Twist my arm!

http://isgodimaginary.com/forum/index.php/topic,41434.0.html

Sita, do they still mine near you?  At our house, it's mostly long-wall, although a few miles up the road they are strip-mining.

[Sita]

Ooooo!

Twist my arm!

http://isgodimaginary.com/forum/index.php/topic,41434.0.html

Sita, do they still mine near you?  At our house, it's mostly long-wall, although a few miles up the road they are strip-mining.

I'm sure there are mines somewhere in the area, but not in my immediate locality.