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Coal is not a living thing. It is produced by a biological and geological process that takes many years, beginning with dead plant matter being converted to peat. That peat then becomes converted into lignite, then sub-bituminous coal, then bituminous coal, and then anthracite. The natural coal that is found in the US was formed about 325 million years ago.

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