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Marion Rae

India's furnaces not the answer for Aussie coal exports

Australian coal exporters are pinning their hopes on India replacing declining demand from China. (Darren Pateman/AAP PHOTOS)

A rapidly modernising India will replace China as the world's key steel growth market but their blast furnaces won't be reliant on Australian coal, researchers predict.

Much of India's planned increase in steel-making capacity is based on coal-fired facilities, which Australian coal exporters are pinning their hopes on to replace declining demand from China.

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