bituminous

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The bituminous crude requires mixing before it can be transported and exported.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2021

Last year, the Mitchell plant burned about 2.5 million tons of bituminous coal.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2021

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

Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam