1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal (USD/tonne) - South Africa - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward Richards Bay coal prices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In international coal derivatives markets, the 1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal was 130.252 USD/tonne on 12 October 2026, compared to 129.000 on 9 October 2026. This constitutes a rise of 0.97 percent.
Sample. There are 3,856 data points in the daily series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price had a mean of 100.609 USD/tonne; it reached its minimum of 46.650 on 22 December 2015; it achieved a maximum of 455.515 on 8 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/tonne |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 129.000 |
| 2026-10-09 | 129.000 |
| 2026-10-12 | 130.252 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 1-month forward price of Richards Bay coal |
| Country | South Africa |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/tonne |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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