ede Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 It’s smokey and stinks. I ended up pulling it from the fire right away. It was given to me and I thought it was anthracite. The smaller shinier piece (second photo) is one I pulled from the fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Moose Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Looks like slag from making iron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Looks like green bituminous coal to me. Does it burn & coke up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ede Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 I use bituminous regularly which this definitely is not. I took it out after It smelled so much worse than bituminous. I’m guessing it might be petroleum coke but still think there are too many volatiles for it to be this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 As there are hundreds of varieties of Bitumenous coal with widly ranging volatile and sulfur contents; I have to ask: do you have experience with many different variations? I once used some Bit coal that had been given to me with visible sulfur layers in it. Filled the alleyway behind the smithy wall to wall with smoke so dark you couldn't see therough it. Very different from the very polite Poco #3 and sewell seam coal I love to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ede Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 Thomas, good point and yes- I use mostly the Sewell vein variety. It makes me really appreciate it and without an analysis of heavy metals, I think I will pass on this extra stinky stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Ede, Your kidneys will thank you. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ede Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 Slag, Yeah, I keep trying to remember I’ve been lucky this long, why risk it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Speaking of heavy metals some coal will make a geiger counter take notice and sing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Speaking of heavy metals some coal will make a geiger counter take notice and sing! Uh huh, take your geiger counter for a walk by the ash pile behind a coal fired power plant and compare it to anywhere on 3 Mile Island. Of course the worst is nothing compared to wearing that radium dial watch your Folks gave you for your 12th birthday. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Herr Frosty, Three mile island complex had containment buildings for their reactors. Alas the Russian reactors at Chernobyl did not. (of course, Soviet Socialist reactors never fail). Does the soil at t. m. I. set off Geiger counters? Someone please let me know, thanks. The tailings, spoils tips surrounding phosphate processing plants/operations might do the same. There is uranium in many of those ore bodies and plants. Just sayyin' SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 It looks too shiny to be cannel coal but your description of it burning sounds like it. It may be oil shale or sub bituminous. If you lived here in KY someone could tell you pretty easily but would have to see it in person. I agree with you and everyone else who told you not to use it. You don't know what contaminants or heavy metals might be present. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slanwar Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I bought coal like that in the past (Pennsylvania) for my 1905 wood/coal cast iron stove and I didn't like at all, took forever to starting burning and at the end a lot of chunks didn't even burned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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