Pearson Coal Petrography provides microscopic evaluations  of  coking coals, steam coals, metallurgical cokes, and carbons, from state-of-the-art laboratories located in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

The Victoria laboratory, in British Columbia, opened in 1981 to service the coal mines in the Rocky Mountains of western Canada. In February 1998, we opened our first US laboratory, in South Holland, Illinois. This was followed in May 2005, by our Catlettsburg laboratory, in Kentucky. Our newest laboratory which opened in January 2008, is located at the port of Mackay, in tropical central Queensland, Australia.

From the two U.S. locations, we provide automated petrographic technology to the world’s most advanced  heat-recovery coke oven batteries operated by SunCoke Energy: at Haverhill North Coke Company, in Franklin Furnace, Ohio;  at Indiana Harbor Coke Company, in East Chicago, Indiana; and to Middletown Coke Company in Middletown, Ohio.  Our laboratories analyze coking coals and blends that comprise more than 25% of the total US production of metallurgical coke.

Our South Holland laboratory is in south Chicago, not far from ArcelorMittal’s Indiana Harbor plant. Catlettsburg laboratory is located at Arch Coal Terminal, on the Big Sandy River, a major tributary of the Ohio River at Ashland, Kentucky. There, a major client is Standard Laboratories. Our Mackay laboratory, recently relocated to Harbour City Centre, on the way to the marina, is located close to the world’s largest coking coal terminals - Hay Point  and Dalrymple Bay, (approximately 85 Million Tonnes per year) on the edge of the Bowen Basin, Australia’s principal coking coal resource.

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  Our head office in  Victoria, BC  is moving to a new location on February 14th: