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Coal Sales<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This is the First video I ever made of myself forging. It’s not bad. This has a lot of sweat and passion for the craft in it. I Believe I was 16 in this video. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Coal seams are fossilized accumulations of plants which lived and died in swamps that were so devoid of oxygen that few microbes or other critters could survive to feed on their remains. The first phase of coal known as “peat” thus developed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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These swamps were interwoven with intricate, meandering river channels which eventually covered things with mud and silt. Subsequent deep burial by more sediments in succeeding geologic ages resulted in heat and pressure which transformed the peat into coal. Generally speaking, every 12 inches of coal thickness represents approximately 10,000 years of continuous peat accumulation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Coal seams in West Virginia average 3 feet in thickness, although they occasionally can be as thick as 25 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the swamp stretches across 2, 3, or more states, one part of the swamp can easily be different from the other, and form coal that, although in the same seam, is different in composition.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Coal Sales<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

As Received Specs:
Size: Nut 3 x 1 1\/2″
Moisture: 1.48% 
Ash: 7.12% 
Sulfur: .75% 
BTU\/lb: 14,373 
BTU\/lb: 15,724 (dry, ash-free) 
Volatile Matter: 18.63% 
Fixed Carbon: 79.62% (dry ash-free) 
Free Swelling Index (Coke Button): 9 
Lbs sulfur per million BTU: 0.52 

Coal analysis report by Geochemical Testing, Somerset, PA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the First video I ever made of myself forging. It’s not bad. This has a lot of sweat<\/p>\n

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