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Acoal baron is a term colloquially used to describe anentrepreneur who possesses great power or influence through the possession and operation ofcoal mines. The phenomena exists inNorth America,South America,Europe,Africa,Asia, andAustralia. Coal barons reached their peak influence between the 1880s and the 1950s.^[1][2][3]

• Gautam Adani^[4]
• Don Blankenship^[5]
• Eldad Cicero Camp
• Chris Cline^[6]
• Eckley Brinton Coxe
• Jim Justice^[7][8]
• Joe Manchin^[9][10]
• Ario Pardee
• Gina Rinehart^[11]
• Pavel Tykač^[12]

• Business magnate
• Business oligarch
• Media proprietor

• Businesspeople in coal
• Coal mining
• Coal companies

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