Coking coal mining investment: Boosting European Union's raw materials initiative

Marta Matyjaszek, Krzysztof Wodarski, Alicja Krzemień, Carmen Escanciano García-Miranda and Ana Suárez Sánchez

Resources Policy, 2018, vol. 57, issue C, 88-97

Abstract: In 2014, the list of Critical Raw Materials for the European Union included for the first time an energy fossil resource: coking coal. Its presence was due to its high economic importance, being the second raw material in the list immediately after tungsten, although with a low supply risk as Australia and USA were the main exporters of coking coal to the European Union in recent years. However, on the 2017 list, coking coal is considered a borderline case. Although it narrowly misses the economic importance threshold, for the sake of caution, coking coal is kept on the list and thus included in the table. However, it will be phased out from the next list should it fail to meet the criteria in full.

Keywords: Coking coal; Critical raw material; Mining project; Price forecasting; Feasibility study; Raw materials initiative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.01.012

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