Kazakhstan contains Central Asia's largest recoverable coal reserves, with 34.5 billion short tons of mostly anthracitic and bituminous coal. From Wordnik.com. [Energy profile of Kazakhstan] Reference
Fourteen years old as near as he could figure, he was a wild mop of black hair handing in a wind-swept mane to his shoulders, and anthracitic eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
At a little distance from the focus of volcanic action, the Cretaceous coals of southwestern Colorado have been made bituminous and coking, while at the Placer Mountains the same stratum may be seen in its anthracitic and lignitic stages. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
With a view to accelerate the perfect combustion of these coals, sugar, starch, bitumen, and bituminous coals -- substances rich in hydrogen -- were employed, mixed in varying proportions with the anthracitic coal, but without the anticipated effect. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Now the estimation of the ash of any of these varieties of coal would afford no evidence as to the class to which that coal belongs, and there is no simple test that will give the calorific power of a coal, and at the same time indicate the degree of bituminous or anthracitic character which it possesses. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
This is suggested by the fact that in places where hot volcanic lavas have gone through coal beds they have locally produced coals of anthracitic and coke-like varieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference
Complex and parallel formations; (a) Alternate beds of grey and stratified limestone, anthracitic mica-slate, anhydrous gypsum and grauwacke; (b) clay-slate, black limestone, grauwacke with greenstone, syenite, transition-granite and porphyries with a base of compact felspar; (c). From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Complex and parallel formations; (a) Alternate beds of grey and stratified limestone, anthracitic mica-slate, anhydrous gypsum and grauwacke; (b) clay-slate, black limestone, grauwacke with greenstone, syenite, transition-granite and porphyries with a base of compact felspar; (c) Euphotides, sometimes pure and covered with jasper, sometimes mixed with amphibole, hyperstein and grey limestone. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
"South Africa's coal reserve base of some 55 billion tonnes of economically recoverable, inherently low-sulphur, bituminous and anthracitic coal represents about 10.5 percent of world hard coal reserves. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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