Coal Prices 2010-2011?

That's not shabby at all unless the dealers decide to rip ya off mileage wise

NorthernIndiana wrote:Summer "sale" price in Northern Indiana Amishland is around $250/ton Bagged and $210/ton bulk without delivery charges.

Up $30 a ton around here. It's now $295.

Bob, what's that--bagged?? bulk?? delivered?? picked up?? Nosey old woodpecker ain't I.

freetown fred wrote:Bob, what's that--bagged?? bulk?? delivered?? picked up?? Nosey old woodpecker ain't I.

Not nosey at all Fred! $295 is for bagged Kimmels or Gauley Mining coal. Blaschak is still $20 more at $315. Bulk is about $20 cheaper. I really can't complain. I live at the top of the state and people in southern Maine are paying close to $50 more than I am. It's still cheaper than oil. #2 is $3.80 and regular gas is at $3.95 in these parts.

My trucker/supplier says that his price was up $15 and he expected another increase in the fall as a result of comments from Casey-Kassa staff. My supplier took care of me this year for $237.50/ton, delivered and put up with a conveyor. We are about 120 miles from Wilkes Barre. I had about 3 to 4 ton in my bin and I took the opportunity to put 8 on top. That maxed out my bin. I am set for two years. I am a happy boy.

I just ordered coal from Dean Rockhill here in Malone NY. I am now living 120 miles further away from the coal mines than I was last year. I paid $250. per ton in 2009 delivered to my home in Chaumont NY. Mr. Rockhill gets $275. per ton up here in the most northern part of NYS in 2011.

Two years later and 120 miles further away from the source = and additional $25. per ton delivered. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.

I just found a very fine supplier in the mid-section of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan (KW Feeds, Clare, MI) who had bagged Blaschak nut coal for $367 including tax for a 2400# skid. That's almost $90 cheaper than what I was able to get from my supplier in the Upper Peninsula. So I bought three skids and took one with me to the U.P. I'll just take one on subsequent trips. He did say that as of Sept the price was going up $13 to $380 per 2400# skid. I'm hoarding, yes. I have 9 2400# skids in my backyard (20 acres!). I also have 10 chords of split and stacked wood, so that I can alternate wood/coal in my furnace.

Closing this, new topic for the 2011-2012 season can be found here:

2011-2012 Anthracite Prices