Figure 1. Average Biweekly Spot Coal Prices, 2000-2001 This is a line graph showing quarterly average prices for coal delivered to each of three major consuming sectors: electric utilities, coke plants, and other industrial. The graph covers the period from the first quarter of 1995 through the second quarter of 2001. It show prices in all three sectors declining slightly through the fourth quarter of 2000–electric utilities from about $28 to about $25 per short ton, contrasting with the much higher coke plant prices, from about $48 to about $45 ("other industrial" consumers were in between, from about $32 to about $31). The prices for all three sectors, however, increase noticeably, by $1 to 2 per short ton, from the fourth quarter of 2000 to the second quarter of 2001. Back