If you work anywhere near power generation, steelmaking, or industrial fuel procurement, Q2 2026 was a quarter that told two very different stories depending on which side of the coal market you were watching. The Coal Price Trend showed robust, broad-based gains across thermal coal benchmarks throughout the quarter, while the metallurgical coal complex stayed notably quiet for most of the same period, before both segments saw some genuinely sharp late-quarter moves in June. For anyone tracking Coal Prices across South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, China, and India, this was a quarter defined by contrast, and it is worth understanding exactly how each segment played out.
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