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IMI sources coal from first-class operations in South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, US, Peru, and Colombia.
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock normally occurring in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. Coal is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, with smaller quantities of sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen. Coal is primarily used as a solid fuel to produce electricity and heat through combustion.
IMI markets coal primarily to the cement industry with destinations in South America, Europe, India, China and the Caribbean. IMI also markets anthracite to steel producers in Asia and Latin America.