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Coal is a fossil fuel, it is used to generate electricity or steam to power machines. Aluminium mining is the extraction of the ore of Aluminium, "bauxite". To mine bauxite you would need to use oil (another fossil fuel) powered machines and dynamite. So the answer is NO, coal powered energy is not an alternative for Aluminium mining.

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