brown coal

British  

noun

1. a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite

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brown coal

Western Macedonia has for decades been the centre of Greece's brown coal mining industry that fed its lignite-fired power stations.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

"It is the last place where brown coal will be mined - not a symbol for more-of-the-same, but for the final frontier."

From Reuters ● Jan. 14, 2023

Demand for brown coal — the cheapest and most energy inefficient form — used by Czech households jumped by almost 35% in the first nine months of 2022 over a year earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Lignite, or brown coal, the only fossil fuel that is still mined in Germany, is burned to generate power.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The coal is of the best quality of that kind of brown coal generally called cannel coal, and is occasionally met with in immense seams.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von