anthracite

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According to ABC España, the site had been a major mine before its closure in 2018, and had since been intermittently used by private companies to extract the mineral anthracite.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

Born in 1908, the oldest son of Lithuanian immigrants, my father started working as a breaker boy in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania when he was 6 years old.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

Rival steelmaker Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India shipped in 35,000 tonnes of Russian anthracite coal using euros, a customs document dated June 15 showed.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2022

With increasing heat and pressure, lignite turns to sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, and then, in a process like metamorphism, anthracite.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Unfortunately, it also sat on twenty-four million tons of anthracite.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson