Coal, Australian thermal coal, 1200- btu/pound, less than 1% sulfur, 14% ash, FOB Newcastle/Port Kembla, US$ per metric tonne (JAN-1980 - OCT-2007 )
Year	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC
1980	39.70	40.26	40.83	41.41	41.99	42.58	43.19	43.80	44.42	45.05	45.68	46.33
1981	46.98	47.65	48.32	49.01	49.70	50.40	51.12	51.84	52.57	53.32	54.07	54.83
1982	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	55.61	45.50
1983	43.00	43.00	43.00	43.00	43.00	43.00	34.75	34.75	34.75	34.75	32.00	29.25
1984	29.25	29.25	29.25	29.25	29.25	31.75	31.75	31.75	31.75	31.75	32.75	33.75
1985	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75	33.75
1986	33.75	33.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	30.75	29.25
1987	29.25	29.25	29.25	24.75	24.75	24.75	27.00	27.00	27.00	27.00	29.00	31.00
1988	31.00	31.00	33.00	33.00	33.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	37.00	37.00	37.50	38.00
1989	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00
1990	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50	40.50
1991	40.50	40.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50
1992	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	39.50	37.25	35.00	35.00
1993	35.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00
1994	31.00	31.00	29.50	29.50	31.40	33.60	33.10	33.10	33.10	33.10	33.10	36.10
1995	37.10	37.60	38.35	37.10	38.77	40.77	41.05	40.88	40.93	40.97	39.59	39.35
1996	39.37	39.28	39.01	39.33	38.20	38.20	38.40	38.35	38.10	37.60	35.70	35.35
1997	35.23	34.60	34.50	35.40	35.73	34.50	35.00	36.93	37.15	37.15	33.60	31.40
1998	31.40	33.44	31.88	31.18	30.28	30.00	30.00	26.20	27.09	27.10	26.10	26.10
1999	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	26.10	25.60	25.10	25.10
2000	25.10	25.10	25.10	25.10	25.60	25.60	25.60	25.60	27.15	27.15	27.15	30.75
2001	32.10	32.10	32.60	33.50	33.80	33.90	34.00	33.80	32.80	32.40	29.40	27.35
2002	29.10	29.85	29.55	28.84	28.63	26.65	24.90	24.00	24.45	26.25	26.25	26.25
2003	26.68	26.95	26.14	25.13	24.96	25.82	26.09	27.13	28.61	29.46	32.05	36.43
2004	40.45	44.73	52.43	57.05	60.47	63.80	65.76	63.48	59.33	60.67	56.60	55.98
2005	56.83	53.46	54.56	54.91	54.98	54.64	54.54	52.63	48.48	45.49	40.78	40.96
2006	46.27	51.11	53.30	56.65	56.36	56.12	56.52	54.58	50.46	47.20	49.29	53.30
2007	54.95	56.68	59.34	60.13	60.00	66.00	72.12	74.30	73.33	80.15