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unusual facts about brown coal



Lappwald

Further flooding by the sea in the succeeding Tertiary era created large areas of bog in the Helmstedt Basin that were transformed under sub-tropical climatic conditions into massive brown coal deposits.

Lom ČSA

The Czechoslovak Army Mine (Czech: Lom Československé armády, shortened to Lom ČSA) is an opencast brown coal mine located in the North Bohemian Basin of the Czech Republic in the area known in Czech as Mostecko that lies between the city of Most and the town of Litvínov.


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Coldry Process

The chemical and calorific values of densified coal derived via the Coldry Process from typical Victorian brown coal with a natural average moisture content of 60 per cent by weight compares well with typical high grade black coal exported from Tarong Queensland, and Newcastle New South Wales Australia.

Densified coal

The chemical and calorific values of densified coal derived from typical Victorian brown coal with a natural average moisture content of 60 per cent by weight compares well with typical high grade black coal exported from Tarong Queensland, and Newcastle New South Wales Australia.

Lignite

The Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria, Australia contains estimated reserves of some 65 billion tonnes of brown coal.

Maddingley Mine

In the early 1940s brown coal was mined and transported in large quantities by rail from the nearby Rowsley Station, with dedicated trains running between Maddingley and the Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM Siding) at Fairfield, Melbourne.

State Electricity Commission of Victoria

Victoria has large reserves of brown coal located in the Latrobe Valley, to the east of Melbourne.

Thierbach Power Station

Thierbach Power Station was a brown-coal fired power station at Espenhain-Thierbach, Germany.

Victorian Railways R class

R 707, which due to various defects had still not been put into service by 1954, was selected for modification for pulverised brown coal (PBC) operation, in conjunction with trials of this fuel being undertaken with X class 'Mikado' X 32.