2011-2012 Anthracite Prices

Good looking pile Steam. It's a nice feeling to know that you've got your heating season covered. Nice pond in the back there. A guy I know down the road made a couple large ponds to grow cranberries in up here.

Called 2 suppliers .. 1st) Reading coal (which I burned 3 tonnes and was very very happy with sans debris) ... 310 ton, up about 40 dollars/t from last year
2nd) Blashak .. $270/ton .. no change in price from last year

I went with the Balshak .. hopefully their nut size is slightly larger than the ones from last year .. did not burn as hot as previous years

3.6 Tons - Blaschak - Bagged - Picked Up - $1026.00 - Northwestern CT

$225 / ton for bulk blashak rice picked up at Reese's Coal just outside Quarryville PA (south of Lancaster). Bagged Blashak rice is $5.50 / 40lb bag picked up (I forget what they said the cost for a skid would be).

McGiever wrote:

KenE wrote:Here is another location for bulk coal. Summit Mine is the source of the coal. Rice and Nut 240 a ton very nice looking coal.
Dettinger Coal Yard Rt 51 Beaver Falls PA 724-843-3773. Call to verify he will be there. About 1 mile off Rt 60.

Two years later and same coal, same price. Nut is $260.00 though.

In 2010 his Rice was more like Barley.

This year is definitely more like Rice.

He started out w/ 23.5 ton T.T. load of Rice, but it's going fast and it's not even Halloween yet.

Bagged is 3 x 40# for $20.00 or $7.00 for 1, for both Nut and Rice.

He has always sold Soft Coal also...bagged and bulk.

$304 per ton, bagged Reading at Klem's in Spencer, MA.

I have only burned Kimmel's or Blaschak in the past few years, hopefully the Reading will not disappoint. I must admit that I am not a fan of the plastic bags that Reading and Blaschak use. If it gets bagged wet, it stays wet. The woven bags that Kimmel has been using allows water/moisture to escape and results in nice dry coal so long as it is stored in a dry location.

175.00/ton delivered right here in coal country

Picked up 2 ton at Premium Fine in Tamaqua today. 170.00 per ton. Up 20.00 from last year.

Paying 38 dollars less than three year ago

it was rice coal.just got coal at the sherman outside of newtown pa. on monday 164.00 a ton tues it went up to 170.00 a ton . got there in time . that's picked up my self. had good luck with it for years.

CT Pellet Just Raised bagged blaschak to $310/ton + delivery, they were just at $285, and last June I was able to negotiate an entire truck load (20 skids) for $260/ton delivered. http://www.ctpellet.com/products_pricing.asp

I am going to build a bin and go bulk before my current supply is exhausted, but I have to say lately the rate of the rise in prices is a bit alarming. Rising prices and the recent power outage have me thinking about adding a wood stove to my basement in case things start to get outta hand. It would be interesting to take the pricing data on this board and do a curve fit, distance from NEPA on the X-axis, Price on the Y, and if your real slick add a Z-axis for quantity purchased to show the volume discount relationship.

$205/ton/pea/5 ton delivered 50 miles from Drums PA. Lots of wood, but i burned a few ton of this over the summer for domestic hot water. No where near the ash content that i had last year coming out of Hudson breaker. We shall see.

mozz wrote:$205/ton/pea/5 ton delivered 50 miles from Drums PA. Lots of wood, but i burned a few ton of this over the summer for domestic hot water. No where near the ash content that i had last year coming out of Hudson breaker. We shall see.

I'm still burning Hudson's from last year. Its alot of ash eh?

I don't know if you remember all the people complaining about a lot of ash from the coal last year. It might have been the strip mining coal coming out of Superior since they don't deep mine anymore? It was a white powderly ash, the whole tub didn't weigh much. I had no complaints on the burning quality it just seemed like way more ash than usual.

Picked up around a half ton with my Ford Ranger today at Casey Kasa in Laflin, Pa.

Still at $170 a ton.








Kevin