bituminous

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In 1920, a typical miner in the United States extracted an average of 4 tons of bituminous coal per day.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2020

The game was born out of distinctly American forms of machinery, from Walter Camp’s New Haven Clock Company to the bituminous coal and mill towns of Pennsylvania.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2020

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 transaction is expected to close by the first quarter of 2016, and Bowie will become the largest bituminous coal producer in the western United States.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2015

The administration area in which Hungry Joe had pitched his tent by mistake lay in the center of the squadron between the ditch, with its rusted railroad tracks, and the tilted black bituminous road.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller