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https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2019#executive-summary
This topic is vast and important. The article is too long. I will remove "Transition away from coal" since we have a article focused on that aspect:coal phase-out
Main recommendation: 1) An article about coal, period. What is it? Where did it come from? Many classifications (rank, grade). What is it used for? 2) The rest: mining (and economics), environmental impacts--Smokefoot (talk)14:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As a heads-up, I'm planning to see if I can improve the sections on air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about whether to phase out coal or "unabated coal". There is also a lot of discussion out there about "clean coal". TheCoal article should help the reader understand the debates. I plan to bring in some relevant content fromCarbon capture and storage andthis Factcheck source. I'll try to do this without lengthening the article.Clayoquot (talk |contribs)22:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the following passages from the "Underground fires" section as I think they're unnecessary detail for an overview article.The examples that have sources are already inCoal seam fire. As for the unsourced example from Tajikstan, I tried to find sourcing and couldn't.
InCentralia, Pennsylvania (aborough located in theCoal Region of the U.S.), an exposed vein of anthracite ignited in 1962 due to a trash fire in the borough landfill, located in an abandonedanthracitestrip mine pit. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and itcontinues to burn underground to this day. The AustralianBurning Mountain was originally believed to be a volcano, but the smoke and ash come from a coal fire that has been burning for some 6,000 years.[1]
At Kuh i Malik inYagnob Valley,Tajikistan, coal deposits have been burning for thousands of years, creating vast underground labyrinths full of unique minerals, some of them very beautiful.
The reddish siltstone rock that caps many ridges and buttes in thePowder River Basin inWyoming and in westernNorth Dakota is calledporcelanite, which resembles the coal burning waste "clinker" or volcanic "scoria".[2] Clinker is rock that has been fused by the natural burning of coal. In the Powder River Basin approximately 27 to 54 billion tons of coal burned within the past three million years.[3] Wild coal fires in the area were reported by theLewis and Clark Expedition as well as explorers and settlers in the area.[4]
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I would like a citation added for this section "It is also customary and considered lucky in Scotland and the North of England to give coal as a gift on New Year's Day. This occurs as part of first-footing and represents warmth for the year to come."
I see no proof of this online.Magus2758 (talk)10:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done Citation found and added.DrOrinScrivello (talk)14:32, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]Do we add anything in here about Mr. Trump's reclassification of coal as a mineral?Coppenheimer (talk)20:42, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
