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Since the 1980s, anthracite refuse or mine waste has been used for steam electric power generation. This fuel typically has a heat content of 15 million Btu per ton or less.
 
Since the 1980s, anthracite refuse or mine waste has been used for steam electric power generation. This fuel typically has a heat content of 15 million Btu per ton or less.
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see [[Coal mining]]
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==Further reading==
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* Chandler, Alfred. "Anthracite Coal and the Beginnings of the 'Industrial Revolution' in the United States," ''Business History Review'' 46 (1972): 141-181. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/3113503 in JSTOR]
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* Dublin, Thomas and Walter Licht. ''The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century'' (2005)
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* Lauver, Fred J. "A Walk Through the Rise and Fall of Anthracite Might," ''Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine'' 27#1 (2001) [http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/miningmuseum/page1.asp?secid=31 online edition]
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