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  2. Coal - Wikipedia

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    Coal consists mainly of a black mixture of diverse organic compounds and polymers. Of course, several kinds of coals exist, with variable dark colors and variable compositions. Young coals (brown coal, lignite) are not black. The two main black coals are bituminous, which is more abundant, and anthracite.

  3. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Android, iOS. 30 October 2018. Genre (s) MMORPG. Mode (s) Multiplayer. Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex. The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly ...

  4. Blast furnace - Wikipedia

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    Former AHM blast furnace in Port of Sagunt, Valencia, Spain. A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. Blast refers to the combustion air being supplied above atmospheric pressure. [1]

  5. Vein (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Vein (geology) White veins in dark rock at Imperia, Italy. In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock. Veins form when mineral constituents carried by an aqueous solution within the rock mass are deposited through precipitation. The hydraulic flow involved is usually due to hydrothermal circulation.

  6. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    Diorama of an underground salt mine in Germany. Inside Salina Veche, in Slănic, Prahova, Romania.The railing (lower middle) gives the viewer an idea of scale. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine and earth-moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations because of rapid dehydration caused by constant contact with the salt (both in ...

  7. History of coal mining - Wikipedia

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    History of coal mining. The History of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies. It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was primarily used to power steam engines, heat buildings and generate ...

  8. Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia

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    A sough is a drainage tunnel to take water from coal mines without the need to pump it to the surface. [1] An example is the Great Haigh Sough. Spoil tip. Gin Pit Colliery's old spoil tip or rucks A spoil tip is a pile built of accumulated spoil - the overburden or other waste rock removed during coal and ore mining. Squeeze

  9. List of countries by coal reserves - Wikipedia

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    Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements; chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. [3] As a fossil fuel burned for heat, coal supplies about a quarter of the world's primary energy and two-fifths of its ...