I Need Something Answered Please
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My husband and I have been going back and forth on coal terms. Is there anything larger than a vein of coal? I know seams are smaller, but as for anything larger, I thought the vein was the largest run of coal. Please help us solve this!! thanks!!!!
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Anything bigger than a vein of anthracite would be a gold mine right now!
a few feet, for anthricite perhaps, but prb coal like that at the black thunder mine in wyoming @ 300+ ft. thick and hundereds of square miles, i'd say thats bigger.
coal seam/bed are used pretty interchangably in coal industry speech, vein is rarely heard.
coal seam/bed are used pretty interchangably in coal industry speech, vein is rarely heard.
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You leave that 300' thick Wyoming Bituminous alone for another 150 million years and you'll have 30' of Anthracite!