anthracite is different to coking coal.Macarthur coal produces...

anthracite is different to coking coal.
Macarthur coal produces PCI - some of that might be anthracite
The big miners produce coking coal in QLD (different to anthracite) this is the stuff getting US$300/t spot
do not hope for anthracite or pci
hope that it is hard coking coal

in increasing age -->

lignite (Victorian brown coal) --> Sub-bituminous (Indo thermal coal) --> bituminous coal (hunter valley thermal, QLD coking coal - vitrinite reflectance determines whether HCC or thermal) --> Sub-Anthracite/Anthracite (some stuff out of Vietnam - PCI application)

If you were to examine bituminous coal category

vitrinite reflectence increasing -->

thermal coal (<0.9) --> semi soft coking coal (<1.0) --> weak coking coal (1.0-1.2) --> hard coking coal (1.2-1.4)

Anthracite is more inert (older aged coal) and is not good for steel making. as i said hard coking coal is something different and is what we are hoping for