Coke situation is okay we are about four hours from Birmingham,Al still lots of foundrys there coke goes for about.10cents a pound which works out to $10.00 a charge the single biggest obstacle we have had is locating the fireclay like looking for hens teeth.We finally found and old timer around here who told us that we were sitting right on top of some in our back yards told us to dig down about six feet and we would find a white/red clay with lots of feldspar in it he even told us how to mix and ram it in the furnace.