Anthracite was ideal for burning in houses, because it didn’t produce as much smoke as “soft” bituminous coal. No longer simply the provenance of blacksmiths, coal became a hot commodity ...

Bituminous coal is the other and second-best burning. It's mined mostly in Western Pennsylvania. Anthracite accounted for ...

Guess & Co. recently purchased 2,700 acres of bituminous coal lands in West Virginia for $200 million, according to a company news release. The tract has 47 million tons of recoverable coal at an ...

Today's Reading & Northern is a robust freight railroad specializing in anthracite coal transport. Despite the decline of ...

By distilling bituminous coal in retorts to obtain gas for illumination, or by burning it in kilns or pits, the residue left behind is called coke, which is simply coal charcoal, and is nearly ...

Today, Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (AMR), a company specializing in bituminous coal and lignite surface mining, ...

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The health and safety of coal miners could be in danger if the Trump administration eliminates mine safety employees, ...