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China plays coal and currency games

Coal might be the least discussed commodity in green and polite circles, but it is undoubtedly a newsmaker thanks to a sky-high price and the potential for it to be used by China to dethrone the U.S. dollar as the global currency for trading in minerals and metals. 

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A series of recent events in the coal market highlight the importance of the material which is a near-universal source of energy but one suffering from an imbalance of demand, which is rising, and