Definition of bituminous coal
: a coal that when heated yields considerable volatile bituminous matter
— called also soft coal
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Flight 93 went down on the barren site of an old strip mine, where generations of laborers had extracted bituminous coal.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
In 1920, a typical miner in the United States extracted an average of four tons of bituminous coal per day.
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Eric Lipton, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
Begun in the 1970s, MTM, also called surface mining, escalated in the 1990s as a cheaper way to access the energy-rich bituminous coal beds lying beneath the Appalachian mountain forests.
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Jessica Wapner, Newsweek, 19 July 2015
In general, bituminous coal, which is the most plentiful type mined in Kentucky and in the U.S., fetches around $50 per ton, according to Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet spokesman John Mura.
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Allison Ross, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2017
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“Bituminous coal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bituminous%20coal. Accessed 29 Jan. 2022.
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