anthracite

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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

Aberpergwm mine is the only producer of high-grade anthracite in Western Europe and it supplies the nearby Tata steel plant in Port Talbot.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2021

Abramovic, known for her work with crystals, chose anthracite from Ukrainian mines and rock quartz crystals from Brazil.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2021

With even more heat and pressure driving out all the volatiles and leaving pure carbon, anthracite can turn to graphite.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

It’s steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr