anthracite
Example Sentences
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Born in 1908, the oldest son of Lithuanian immigrants, my father started working as a breaker boy in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania when he was 6 years old.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
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 coal here is clean coal, it's anthracite and it's very, very good for filtration.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 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
