Anthracite facts for kids

A large Anthracite chunk

Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a type of dark coloured coal. Anthracite produces the fewest pollutants per unit of heat released, having the highest-heat value, and the lowest sulfur content. At the moment, deposits are largely depleted.

Anthracite is the most metamorphosed type of coal currently known to science.

China does most mining of anthracite. Other producers are Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, South Africa, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the United States (east of the Mississippi River and Pennsylvania). Total production in 2010 was 670 million tons.

Images for kids

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  Anthracite from Ibbenbüren, Germany

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  Anthracite from Bay City, Michigan)

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  Anthracite coal breaker and power house buildings, New Mexico, circa 1935

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  Anthracite is a "fighting fuel", World War II poster

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  American football trophy custom-made from anthracite

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  Group of breaker boys, from a 1910 photograph by Lewis Hine

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  1908 postcard of burning culm dump of anthracite tailings near Scranton, Pennsylvania

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In Spanish: Antracita para niños