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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
Timeline of Events
1850
6.29.1850
Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1909
11.13.1909
''Collier's magazine'' accuses United States Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1927
11.21.1927
Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.