Anthracite
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Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy d
Anthracite coal
An anthracite pile in Trevorton, Pennsylvania
A coal mine car used to enter and exit the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, where Lackawanna Coal Mine once operated in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Anthracite coal from Ibbenbüren, Germany
Centralia, Pennsylvania
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Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 beca
Anthracite
…warmth conducted from below. Proposals for harnessing this heat as geothermal energy have not been successful. A vein of anthracite that caught fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, in 1962 has been burning ever since, turning the once-thriving borough into a ghost town. Geologically, the largest most concentrated anthracite deposit…
Cemetery at Centralia
A warning sign in Centralia
Centralia area showing conditions before mine fire
A small part of the Centralia mine fire as it appeared after being exposed during an excavation in 1969