Don't see the shelf life myself. I used to haul coal on trains daily. The coal from the west comes to MI. Which at times will take way more than a week to get there. Then it is unloaded to a pile that sits until it is used, sometimes for months. I serviced 2 different power plants and this was the case at both.
This of course is you meaning the coal from the west is out of the strip mining being done in the western states.
Dave
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