WEEKLY: Stable ops continue at China's met coal wash plants

Processed coking coal production at the 110 affiliated and independent coking coal wash plants Mysteel regularly surveys averaged 521,350 tonnes/day during July 23-29, basically flat from the previous week's 521,450 t/d. Their average operating rate dropped marginally by 0.8 percentage point on week to 61.51%, Mysteel's latest survey results showed.

During the survey week, production at the sampled affiliated and independent coal washeries presented mixed trends, the data show. In Central China's Henan province, scorching summer heat led to increasing heatstroke cases among underground coal miners, according to the survey respondnet, disrupting production at mines and those wash plants affiliated