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needs update but I don't have time

https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2019#executive-summary

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This topic is vast and important. The article is too long. I will remove "Transition away from coal" since we have a article focused on that aspect: coal phase-out

Main recommendation: 1) An article about coal, period. What is it? Where did it come from? Many classifications (rank, grade). What is it used for? 2) The rest: mining (and economics), environmental impacts --Smokefoot (talk) 14:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific? There are already articles on coal mining and the health and environmental impact of the coal industry. Also I suggest excerpts, for example of coal phase-out. Chidgk1 (talk) 21:04, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That would make sense. This should be general and more separate more. FairfieldAve (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with the recommendations. Topics related to coal covered by other articles should only be mentioned briefly with a link Ita140188 (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the topic is vast and important. There is potential to reduce duplication within the article and move/remove less-important details that can be covered in sub-articles. I can spend some time on this this week. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:50, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since the "Transition away from coal" section has been removed [1] as proposed, is it OK to remove the "It has been suggested that this article should be split into multiple articles." tag at the top of the article? I think everyone agrees on moving towards WP:Summary style so it might be time to move more towards execution rather than further discussion. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:55, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Smokefoot Can we close this now as it is still showing up on our list of alerts at Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change? Chidgk1 (talk) 19:02, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I lost track. Split proposal has been removed.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:09, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Coal power plants, pollution, and abatement/mitigation

As a heads-up, I'm planning to see if I can improve the sections on air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about whether to phase out coal or "unabated coal". There is also a lot of discussion out there about "clean coal". The Coal article should help the reader understand the debates. I plan to bring in some relevant content from Carbon capture and storage and this Factcheck source. I'll try to do this without lengthening the article. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Clayoquot Great - I think you have improved it enough to nominate it as a good article if you want. I have a couple of other articles in the nomination queue as I almost always find the reviewers make really useful comments which help me improve articles Chidgk1 (talk) 19:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding a nomination for Good article status, were you referring to the Carbon capture and storage article? The Coal article still needs quite a bit of work. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Underground fires

I've removed the following passages from the "Underground fires" section as I think they're unnecessary detail for an overview article.The examples that have sources are already in Coal seam fire. As for the unsourced example from Tajikstan, I tried to find sourcing and couldn't.

In Centralia, Pennsylvania (a borough located in the Coal Region of the U.S.), an exposed vein of anthracite ignited in 1962 due to a trash fire in the borough landfill, located in an abandoned anthracite strip mine pit. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it continues to burn underground to this day. The Australian Burning Mountain was originally believed to be a volcano, but the smoke and ash come from a coal fire that has been burning for some 6,000 years.^[1]

At Kuh i Malik in Yagnob Valley, Tajikistan, coal deposits have been burning for thousands of years, creating vast underground labyrinths full of unique minerals, some of them very beautiful.

The reddish siltstone rock that caps many ridges and buttes in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and in western North Dakota is called porcelanite, which resembles the coal burning waste "clinker" or volcanic "scoria".^[2] Clinker is rock that has been fused by the natural burning of coal. In the Powder River Basin approximately 27 to 54 billion tons of coal burned within the past three million years.^[3] Wild coal fires in the area were reported by the Lewis and Clark Expedition as well as explorers and settlers in the area.^[4]

References

^ "Fire in The Hole". Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
^ "North Dakota's Clinker". Archived from the original on 14 September 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.
^ "BLM-Environmental Education – The High Plains". Archived from the original on 12 March 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.
^ Lyman, Robert M.; Volkmer, John E. (March 2001). "Pyrophoricity (spontaneous combustion) of Powder River Basin coals: Considerations for coalbed methane development" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.

Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 20:10, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like a citation added for this section "It is also customary and considered lucky in Scotland and the North of England to give coal as a gift on New Year's Day. This occurs as part of first-footing and represents warmth for the year to come."

I see no proof of this online. Magus2758 (talk) 10:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Citation found and added. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 14:32, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Fire in The Hole". Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2011.

[2] "North Dakota's Clinker". Archived from the original on 14 September 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.

[3] "BLM-Environmental Education – The High Plains". Archived from the original on 12 March 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.

[4] Lyman, Robert M.; Volkmer, John E. (March 2001). "Pyrophoricity (spontaneous combustion) of Powder River Basin coals: Considerations for coalbed methane development" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2005.

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