culm
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“It could also be a culm bank where they put all the refuse of the coal industry. It does look like there are trees growing on it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
As far as DEP is concerned, reprocessing coal from culm banks is a benefit: It mitigates a hazard, as well as the environmental issues, Stefanko said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long have there been rumors that PRC would go into the power business, using its own small grade anthracite and reclaiming culm banks for fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the culm pile they went to see the great pumping-engine, and the huge fans that act as lungs to the mine, constantly forcing out the foul air and compelling fresh to enter it.
From Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines by Kirk Monroe
