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The supply curve ranks the volumes supplied by each supplier according to the average cost of bringing the tonnages to market for sale, with the least-cost suppliers on the left-most side (marked A) and the highest-cost producers on the right-most side (marked B). The profit accruing to each producer is given by the area between the red price line P and each respective cost base
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This paper investigates the implications for coal supply security for the domestic South African market when faced with weaker export demand. A model is proposed of domestic coal trade via a trading hub which links coal production to consumer markets. An application of the theory for equilibrium price discovery at the mine-trader and trader-consume...
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... Cui and Wei (2017) study the phenomenon of thermal-coal price distortion through economic theoretical modeling and empirical cointegration analysis from the perspective of market forces [20]. Rademeyer et al. (2021) find that a profit-maximizing trader will seek to sell more volumes to domestic consumers of higher grade coal to compensate for earnings lost due to lower export volumes [21]. With the goal of minimizing the expected cost of the government (buyer) and maximizing the profit of the enterprise (supplier), examine the optimal reserve of emergency materials and investigate the coordination of an emergency supply chain [22]. ...
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... DOTRAMOD is a computational model of domestic coal trade in which trade is facilitated by a single trader intermediary (Rademeyer et al. 2020b). This construction is illustrated in Fig. 1. ...
This paper investigates the implications for coal supply security for the domestic South African market when faced with weaker export demand. It expands on a previously introduced model of domestic coal trade, DOTRAMOD, by accounting for mining profit, the opening of new mines and the closing of loss-making mines. The results indicate that declining demand for exported coal would result in declining profits for multi-product mines. This would lead to the closure of some mines and reduced coal supply to domestic power producers. These results highlight the importance of the mine investment problem in commodity market studies.
There is an everlasting distance and interdependence between mines and end-users as it involves different types of equipment, infrastructure, and facilities, including excavators, trucks, processing plants, stockpiles, railways, ports, ships, etc. Precise management of a complex mine-to-customer supply chain system is essential to guarantee delivering mineral products from remote mines to overseas clients in a well-organised way. In the literature of mining management, both academic scholars and industrial managers are paying more and more attention to develop state-of-the-art mine supply chain management (MSCM) methodologies. To meet this emerging demand, this study aims to conduct a comprehensive and up-to-date literature review on MSCM research topics by evaluating over 200 papers, mostly published in the last decade (2010–2021). We analyse the characteristics of the reviewed papers from perspectives of the mine supply chain's links and the interdisciplinary classification. Thus, we classify these papers into nine main categories, namely, capacity planning, logistics, inventory control, network design, economic issues (e.g., pricing), efficiency evaluation, risk control, environmental protection, and production scheduling. Based on this classification, we present potential research opportunities and managerial insights in the area of MSCM.
