# Coking coal: Relationships

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Every element and industry that Coking coal is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

- [Benzene](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/benzene-and-coking-coal/): When coking coal is baked into coke for steelmaking, the oven gas carries crude benzol, which is recovered and refined into benzene. It is a by-product whose volume follows steel output, not benzene demand, and it matters most in China, where it supplied about a fifth of benzene in 2022. *(researched)*
- [Steel](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-steel/): Blast furnace steel needs roughly 800 kg of coal per tonne, most of it as coke, so coking coal demand rises and falls with blast furnace output; India imports about 90 to 95% of its coking coal, with Australia the largest supplier. *(researched)*
- [Thermal coal](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-thermal-coal/): Coking and thermal coal come from the same basins and sometimes the same mines, and the lower grades of metallurgical coal (semi-soft and PCI) can be sold either to steelmakers or to power stations. That makes the price gap between the two the thing to watch: it normally favours coking coal, but it inverted in mid-2022 and miners switched coal to the thermal market. *(researched)*
- [Coal mining](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coal-mining-and-coking-coal/): Coking coal is the premium product of coal mining, dug from specific seams and washed to steelmaking grade; India mines about 67 Mt but its coal is high in ash, so it imports about 90% of its metallurgical coal and is pushing to reach 140 Mt of domestic output by 2030. *(researched)*
- [Carbon black](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/carbon-black-and-coking-coal/): Coking coal is a raw material for carbon black; their prices have moved together.
- [Ammonium sulphate](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ammonium-sulphate-and-coking-coal/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Coal transport](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coal-transport-and-coking-coal/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Construction and infrastructure](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-construction-and-infrastructure/): Construction and infrastructure depends on coking coal.
- [Hydrogen](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-hydrogen/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Iron ore](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-iron-ore/): Their prices have moved together.
- [Machinery and equipment](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-machinery-and-equipment/): Machinery and equipment depends on coking coal.
- [Metal products](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-metal-products/): Metal products depends on coking coal.
- [Steel plant energy recovery](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-steel-plant-energy-recovery/): Steel plant energy recovery needs coking coal.
- [Vehicles, ships, rail, aircraft](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-vehicles-ships-rail-aircraft/): Vehicles, ships, rail, aircraft depends on coking coal.
- [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/links/coking-coal-and-water-and-sanitation/): Water and sanitation depends on coking coal.

## Other sections

- [Summary](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/index.md)
- [Energy overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/energy/index.md)
- [Correlation](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/correlation/index.md)
- [How energy resides](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/resides/index.md)
- [Abundance](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/abundance/index.md)
- [Fluctuation in time](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/time/index.md)
- [Across the Earth](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/geography/index.md)
- [Impact on nature](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/nature/index.md)
- [Overview](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/overview/index.md)
- [Extraction](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/extraction/index.md)
- [Production](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/production/index.md)
- [Stocks](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/stocks/index.md)
- [Cycles](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/cycles/index.md)
- [Trading](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/trading/index.md)
- [Movement](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/movement/index.md)
- [Criticality](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/criticality/index.md)
- [Characteristics](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/characteristics/index.md)
- [Emissions](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/coking_coal/emissions/index.md)