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In heaps in the open air. It is a black shiny carboniferous rock.

It is mined either underground in coal mines, or on the surface in quarries.

Geologically, it is a strata of rock.

It formed in the Carboniferous Geological period from dead/rotting animal and plant life.

From this rotted material , it can be combusted to release heat for energy. Also it can release carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ammonia, methane. In the modern world these gases can be put to industrial use.

The usual place to find coal in heaps is at the steel works, and power station.

At a steel works, coal is naked in coke ovens to make coke, impure carbon , used for iron ore reduction to iron.

At a power station it is combusted to release heat for steam production in order to turn turbines and make electricity.

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