Anthracite coal economy in Pennsylvania unaffected by Trump
Dec 12, 2018· Anthracite is instead used in home heating and metallurgy, like steelmaking. While the rise of natural gas has continued to gut the thermal coal industry, the market for metallurgical coal is growing steadily — though not to the levels of its heyday. Once, there were nearly 100 million tons of anthracite coal mined every year in Pennsylvania.