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anthracite

[an-thruh-sahyt] / ˈæn θrəˌsaɪt /


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Rival steelmaker Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India shipped in 35,000 tonnes of Russian anthracite coal using euros, a customs document dated June 15 showed.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2022

The colliery is the only producer of high-grade anthracite in western Europe and supplies the nearby Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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

It’s steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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