coal reserves
Stored carbon deposits
Coal reserves are the quantities of coal that have been identified and can be economically extracted with current technology.
Geologists distinguish reserves from resources—reserves are proven and accessible, while resources include all coal deposits regardless of feasibility.
Countries report reserves to indicate energy security: China and the United States hold the world's largest coal reserves.
- anthraciteHighest-grade coal variety
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- carbon emissionsReleased greenhouse gases
- carbon footprintTotal greenhouse gases produced
- underground miningExcavating minerals from tunnels
dirty energy · mining towns · production capacity · bituminous · energy transition · carbon content · proven · market demand · operational costs · untapped · buried · fossil fuel · carbon · veins · geological · colliery · shafts · energy
- natural resourcescrude oil, lumber, water, gas, air
- reservesreserve, fuel reserve, army reserve, naval reserve, gold reserve
- coalanthracite, bituminous, lignite, slack, culm
- Coal Miningminers, underground mines, colliery, strip mining, underground
- coal industrystrip mining, anthracite, underground mining, coke, lignite
- fuel reservespetroleum, crude oil, natural gas, strategic reserve, nuclear fuel
coal reservesrenewable energy
Self-replenishing natural power
solar power · hydroelectric power · clean energy · geothermal energy · green energy