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Hi Dyer, excellent content, thanks for sharing. Regarding HCC, the reference price for them is the australian coking Coal Index? If so, there is a great upside in revenues next quarter vs estimates (around 190) vs a back of the envelope calculation (1800 Tones * 250 Austr price = 450) I am missing something? seems nuts!

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Why Cash Cost for HCC is only $65.28? Last quoters it was around $80.

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They include transportation costs in their figure, so I estimated those expenses and removed it in order to normalize for cash mining costs.

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Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

Quite new to the space - how do we understand the forward profit margins of ~$100/ton? I gathered this is based on forward prices of ~190/ton vs cash costs of ~80/ton.

However, if I add Ocean Freight and Inland Logistics costs to the mining cash costs - that would imply a much smaller profit margin?

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The netback is the price at the mine, so it's what the producer makes after transportation costs have been deducted. If netbacks are $190 and cash costs are $80, then profit margins are $110.

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This is great stuff, thank you. Should we assume that every time we hear of a company shipping to China, it’s at least Panamax size? I believe Panamax was referenced for the last ARCH shipment into China

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I think that's right. I don't think DTA (AMR & ARCH) is capable of handling Capesize so I'd assume Panamax. Not sure of the other coal terminals but probably the same story for the remaining met oriented terminals.

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