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

Heavy equipment excavate anthracite coal from a strip mine in New Castle, Pennsylvania, U.S.,

From Reuters • May 25, 2022

On April 13, an anthracite gray Volkswagen van pulled into Les Poulières.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

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

The air was stale and still, suffused with the scent of rotten peaches, horse excrement, and partially combusted Illinois anthracite.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson