Longlunch, I support your comments and plea for people to do...

Longlunch, I support your comments and plea for people to do good research and not to take social media placards as fact. Unfortunately there are way too many who seem to do just that.
The anti-mine forces are powerful wherever you look but their power generally lies in myths and half truths.
Just to reinforce your statement about met coal and steel, there is no current technologies to replace carbon in steel and steel-making despite the BS about making green steel. However without steel we do not have any steel in cars, no tractors, no steel towers for wind farms and I could go on and on.
But back on track, ATU have made really good progress in the past year it seems to me so I am in for the longer haul.