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Reading Anthracite Coal is Your Best Choice.
Anthracite coal a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat.
Anthracite Coal will satisfy your needs, whether your needs for anthracite are as a fuel for residential and commercial heating, metallurgical refining and processing, fuel for electric utility power plants, or water purification and filtration
Anthracite coal is also your best choice because there is an ample supply (several hundred years of reserves are available), it is the most economical source of energy, and is the most environmentally friendly coal, both in its clean buring and in the reclamation of the land after mining.



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View Reading Anthracite Access PermitThe Anthracite Coal revolution beginning in the mid 1700’s provided an assortment of industrial advances in the United States, beginning with the Colonial iron industry, followed by the steel mills and electric power plants. Anthracite coal was first discovered in America back between 1750 and 1755.
Pennsylvania is one of the largest coal producing states.
Anthracite coal mining takes place in several Pennsylvania counties, including Schuylkill county, Carbon county, Luzerne county, Northumberland county, Lackawanna county, Columbia county, Dauphin county, and Sullivan county. United States anthracite coal comes almost entirely from eastern Pennsylvania, which holds about 7 billion tons of mineable anthracite coal reserves!
Anthracite coal mining industry's safety record has drastically improved over the years, due to advanced safety training and inspections. They have improved so much, in fact, that anthracite coal mining safety is about equal to agriculture and construction industries.
After the anthracite coal has been completely removed from an area, reclamation of the land begins. The rock and dirt that was removed from the mine site is returned and smoothed over the area.Then top soil is added, seeded and fertilized. Soon the land is restored to a condition that is ready for other beneficial usages.
For anthracite coal to be used efficiently and effectively, it is necessary that the coal be supplied in pieces as nearly uniform in size as possible. READING ANTHRACITE's coal is passed through its breaker, one of the most modern preparation plant around, and is sized and sorted, cleaned of foreign material and washed, prior to being shipped as America's finest anthracite hard coal.
At READING ANTRACITE, men, machines and science have formed a great team at. This team produces 900 1100 tons a day of clean, washed, carefully prepared anthracite coal.In 2006, READING ANTRACITE is celebrating 135 years of progress in the mining, processing, and marketing of America's finest anthracite hard coal.




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Phone: (570) 622-5150 • Fax: (570) 622-2612