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For two decades Bluestone produced 500,000 tons per year of what’s known as metallurgical or coking coal, a premium hard coal used to make steel.
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Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Use of hard coal and lignite to generate power in the EU rose by 6% in 2022 from a year earlier.
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Lars Paulsson,
Fortune,
16 Jan. 2023
Bexbach was built to burn local coal, but the area’s last hard coal mine closed in 2012.
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Vanessa Guinan-Bank,
Washington Post,
1 Aug. 2022
The European Union imported 53% of hard coal from Russia in 2020, which accounted for 30% of the EU’s hard coal consumption.
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Samuel Petrequin,
ajc,
5 Apr. 2022
That system now has an annual throughput of more than 7 billion metric tons of hard coal and lignite, about 4 billion metric tons of crude oil, and more than 3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas.
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IEEE Spectrum,
28 June 2012
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Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Use of hard coal and lignite to generate power in the EU rose by 6% in 2022 from a year earlier.
—
Lars Paulsson,
Fortune,
16 Jan. 2023
Bexbach was built to burn local coal, but the area’s last hard coal mine closed in 2012.
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Vanessa Guinan-Bank,
Washington Post,
1 Aug. 2022
The European Union imported 53% of hard coal from Russia in 2020, which accounted for 30% of the EU’s hard coal consumption.
—
Samuel Petrequin,
ajc,
5 Apr. 2022
That system now has an annual throughput of more than 7 billion metric tons of hard coal and lignite, about 4 billion metric tons of crude oil, and more than 3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas.
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IEEE Spectrum,
28 June 2012
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