Definition of bituminous coal
: a coal that when heated yields considerable volatile bituminous matter
— called also soft coal
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Recent Examples on the Web 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, "“We are back. The coal industry is back,”," 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, "The Cancer Epidemic in Central Appalachia," 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, "Kentucky coal linked to punishment of naughty children by shadowy international figure," 20 Dec. 2017
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