US-based metallurgical coal producer Warrior Met Coal has announced plans to develop a hard coking coal project in Alabama with a capacity of 3.9-million-tonnes per year, through an investment of around $550-600 million over the next five years.
The company expects the development of the Blue Creek project to produce 4.3 million short tons per annum - 3.9 million tonnes - of premium high-vol A metallurgical coal over the first 10 years of production, the company said on Wednesday February 19.The company expects high-vol A coal to become scarce while Central Appalachian...