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21 Aug 2014
Colombia's coal production rose to 47.3 million tonnes in the first half of the year, the government said on Wednesday, a 14 percent increase over the same period last year when a month-long strike at the country's top coal miner dented output.
Production in the second quarter this year rose 22.7 million tonnes, a 2.6 percent rise from that period last year when the strike at joint venture Cerrejon had already ended.
The export market consumed 90.9 percent of the coal production in the first half of the year, the data from the National Mining Agency (ANM) showed, while the rest was used domestically for steel and cement making and power generation.
The world's fourth-biggest coal exporter produced 85.5 million tonnes of coal in 2013 and the government has set a target of 89.1 million tonnes for this year.
The country's second-biggest miner, U.S.-based Drummond, was forced by the government to shut down its port in January and until the end of March until it could comply with new stricter environmental standards.
The decision had little or no impact on coal output as the company continued to mine and stock its production.
Similarly, strike action that began in July by more than 3,000 maintenance workers employed by a third party contractor to maintain miners' machinery had no real impact on coal as the companies quickly found temporary replacement workers.
Source: Reuters