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Coal is a
combustible black or brownish-black
sedimentary rock,
formed as rock
strata called coal seams.
Coal is
mostly carbon with
variable amounts of...
- A
coal-fired
power station or
coal power plant is a
thermal power station which burns coal to
generate electricity.
Worldwide there are
about 2,500 coal-fired...
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capacity of 1,398
megawatts and
burns about 14,000
tonnes of
coal every day. It was the
largest coal-fired
power plant in the
world when it was completed. The...
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Coal mining is the
process of
extracting coal from the
ground or from a mine.
Coal is
valued for its
energy content and
since the 1880s has been widely...
- been much more conservative. In India,
Coal Miners Day is
celebrated on May 4. From the mid-19th
century onward,
coal miners have
often built strong connections...
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Coal liquefaction is a
process of
converting coal into
liquid hydrocarbons:
liquid fuels and petrochemicals. This
process is
often known as "
coal to X"...
- are
black coal, hard
coal,
stone coal, dark
coal,
coffee coal,
blind coal (in Scotland),
Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow
coal or craw
coal, and black...
- The
Coal Wars were a
series of
armed labor conflicts in the
United States,
roughly between 1890 and 1930.
Although they
occurred mainly in the East, particularly...
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United Kingdom's
collieries on "vesting
day", 1
January 1947. In 1987, the NCB was
renamed the
British Coal Corporation, and its ****ets were subsequently...
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discovery of
anthracite coal in the
region occurred in 1762, and the
first mine was
established 13
years later, in 1775 near present-
day Pittston. In 1791,...
