US coal reserves: An update by heat and sulfur content

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7054222

The estimates presented in this report are inherently uncertain. Although the EIA and others have undertaken to improve the accuracy of the estimates, there are still limitations to both the procedures used and the data available for much of the estimation, attributable to the age of many of the geological estimates of coal resource quantities and to the paucity of available information on coal quality for many of the resource areas included in the DRB. Many economic factors, such as coal ash contents, ash melting temperatures, and sodium contents, along with regulatory constraints, land-use conflicts, and spoiling of reserves by nearby mining, may curtail coal reserve development in the long term. Therefore, the EIA cautions against projecting the number of years of future production for which these estimated reserves will last. The detailed estimates of US coal resources and recoverable coal reserves presented in this report by State, method of mining, Btu content, and sulfur content should be useful for analyses of issues related to the coal industry and coal consumers, especially in evaluating various coal use scenarios evolving from the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. These estimates are the result of the EIA's best efforts to compile, from available data, information on US coal resources and reserves on a uniform, nationwide basis. The data, methodologies, and assumptions used to develop these estimates will be updated as new information becomes available.

• Research Organization: USDOE Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7054222
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0529(92); ON: DE93006744
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
011000* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Reserves
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& Exploration
ASH CONTENT
CALORIFIC VALUE
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
COAL DEPOSITS
COAL RESERVES
COMBUSTION PROPERTIES
DATA
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MINERAL RESOURCES
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
RESERVES
RESOURCES
SULFUR CONTENT
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US ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
US ORGANIZATIONS
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