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When growing up my Grandparents ordered coal for heating purposes in winter. They had big piles of it when the heating period started. There where huge chunks of maybe 50cm length and 30cm width. I guesstimate the whole pile to be around 10m^3. But keep in mind it’s not the most reliable source since this dates 30+ years back and the dimensions have been seen with a little kids eyes. It may be less.
My house I live in today is 100+ years old. There are still some pieces of coal in my basement.
Yes. There isn't much coal where I'm at but I've stumbled over it a few times while mucking around in the woods, streams, or whatever. I've even seen anthracite on the beach that either came from nearby or fell off a ship.
Yes, in 1989.
East Perth to Midland train yards on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman.
The fireman was shovelling coal into the firebox, and it was one of the most concentrated sources of heat I have seen in my life.
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I visited a former coal mine that's now a museum. If you take a tour, you get a small piece of coal to keep at the end.
Coal, I had my childhood home heated with a coal fire in winter. Crude oil I touched at an art exhibition. I also remember real creosote! Amazing smell.
Yep used to do exploration for it as a geologist
There are still folk using coal daily round here. In my family circle, the last house to move away from coal was just last year. UK. We have also burnt peat but I think that's completely banned now. Nope, still available but legislation is in the works.
No crude oil.
Yeah. I grew up near one of Germany's largest open-pit lignite mines. Had a tour of the mighty Bagger 293 as a kid and was allowed to touch some coal.
Yep. Visited the coal mines in northern PA as a little kid. Going underground was super cool.
Tour Ed Mines represent!
Yes, I've held coal and touched crude oil.
Coal was common along the railway and I would pick up chunks cause it was interesting.
Crude oil I saw / touched because I would go along with my dad who would measure the tank level for oil on the see-saw style pumps
Yes. I still have a chunk. My brother worked at a mine for a summer. Guess what I got the following Christmas? He thought he was hilarious...
And rightly so!
Touch, not sure. See, certainly. I have seen steam locomotives operate many times in my life because I live in a country where those are still in use as tourist attractions.
Yes. Hike up a mountain in Kentucky and it just sticks out occasionally.
Having grown up in a house without central heating, coal ovens in the kitchen and the living room were the two points of warmth in the winter. I have learned to light the coal oven before I was old enough to attend school. And whenever coal was delivered, I was tasked to help moving the coal to the coal shack behind the house.
Dirty business, 0/10, can't recommend.
We heated my childhood home with coal until I moved out as an adult.
Here's a picture I took of the inside of the coal burning stove when visiting my parents in 2014, I'm not sure why but the heat made it turn purple for some reason 🤷♂️
Hi! It's because your camera can see infrared, but has to show it to you in colours you can see.
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I see coal everyday. It powers my pen
You've never used charcoal for a grill?
Charcoal isn't much like what most people think of as coal - the hard, slightly to somewhat shiny mineral like anthracite. Having grown up near rail lines that transported coal, it was pretty common to find near the tracks.
Charcoal is more like a compressed powder, similar to pencil lead, not hard like a rock and shiny.
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Charcoal isn't the same thing as regular coal
I can't remember a specific time if I've touched coal. I know I've done a geology course at one point, and visited various museums with large rock collections.
I've definitely seen coal in person protruding from the top of passing railcars... here's a picture of one I took in South Surrey earlier this month:
picture of coal train
A gas station in a mining town I visited had little statues carved out of coal.
We once had a very old house with a cellar that was not used and not built for living there in any way. So you had plain rock walls and it was pretty moist. I do not know why but there was a single basket of coal down there. So I have seen black coal but I have not touched it.
Crude oil I have seen too back in school. My teacher had a sample to be able to show it.
We bought a house with a small coal supply under the stairs. No idea what to do with it.
I dabble with blacksmithing. I'd take it in a heartbeat
Whoa! Deja Vu!
I was a huge fan of steam engines when I was younger, so I used to go to heritage railways a lot as a child. Also when I had an LPG car, the place I used to go for fuel also sold coal
My dad grew up in England in the 20s and 30s, and they always burned coal in their fireplaces (wood much harder to come by there). He always talked about how long it burned and was kind of nostalgic for it, even though we lived in southern California and he was a contractor, so we always had lots of wood from his jobs. When I was a teenager, he decided to get a big bag of it, and it really did make great fires, but it's messy and smells bad.
We also have a small lump in a little square box with our Christmas stuff that someone got as a novelty gag gift and we never threw it away.
It's pretty easy to find along the river banks around here. It wouldn't burn if you tossed it in a fire though, not sure why (maybe it's waterlogged or something).
I have a bolo tie whose slide ornament is carved anthracite.
I've never shoveled coal.
When I was a kid, for some reason I really wanted coal for Christmas and I was diappointed that only the bad kids got it. My parents decided to mess with me one year by hiding all my actual presents and only putting a piece of coal in my stocking. I was thrilled and thought it was so cool. I have no idea why I thought it was cool, I was a weird kid. My parents gave up on the joke before I even realized that none of the presents under the tree had my name on them. I was entirely happy with the piece of coal.
Ironically, it's become one of my favorite Christmas memories and it's one of few presents I still have as an adult.
I just love this story.
Whoa, I didn't expect coal to look so pretty!
There are different types/grades of coal, with anthracite being the hardest and shiniest.
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I visited a coal power plant when I was still a student in a university. It's like stony charcoals.
Took a tour of an old/historic cooal mine once. There was still a seam in the wall. And they had some coal and stuff in the gift shop.
You might also see it if you see a blacksmith demonstration. (For example, Historic Fort Snelling, for any one near MSP airport looking for something to do.)