Jeremy Sabourin

for size.. It gets broken down quite a bit at the mine ,loaded onto cars and then gets powderized before being used at the power plant so I was hoping to get my hands on the stuff that they load into the coal cars. it gets run through a cone crusher before loading onto the coal cars. I have not seen the physical size in a while, i don't remember how big it is after the crusher. I am going to build the side blast and see how it works. I am just researching for building my first forge

I live about 20 miles from an open pit mine that produces 3.3 million tons of lignite a year. locals can come load up or they will load trucks for a small fee. I am going to be building a side blast forge, hopefully that should help with impurities. I understand lignite has lower btu per volume... but is it possible to make up for that by just burning up lots of lignite? My question is if a person can get lignite real cheap can i use it to forge with the right set up?