The phrase "abandoned coal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe coal that has been left behind or no longer in use, often in the context of mining or energy production.
Example: "The abandoned coal mine has become a site for environmental restoration efforts."
Alternatives: "discarded coal" or "neglected coal".
Methane also evaporates in abandoned coal mines.
Joblessness was, and is, a scourge in Bochum, an industrial city blighted by abandoned coal mines.
At an abandoned coal mine nearby, runoff water rushed noisily out of a pipe into a ditch.
Such models of ecological engineering are considered presently as an efficient tool for rehabilitation of abandoned coal fly ash basins.
I spent half my childhood in Fife, surrounded by villages where abandoned coal mines has left nothing behind but unemployment.
They argue that these abandoned coal mining complexes provide a collective memory and identity to the community.
Miles of skinny single track, narrow-gauge rail beds and abandoned coal-shipping rails have riders bobbling over boulder fields and careering down valleys.
Ha Island, Japanese Ha-shima, also called Battleship Island, Japanese Gunkan-jima, abandoned coal-mining centre some 3 miles (5 km) offshore, Nagasaki prefecture, northwestern Kyushu, Japan.
They only abandoned coal-fired steam locomotives, for example, when General Motors developed the diesel-electric engine and gave demonstrations to railroads around the country in the 1940s.
A. R. HOGAN Spitzer and Hogan are free-lance writers who live in Hyattsville, Md. Hidden in the lush Appalachian forest of south-central West Virginia, disintegrating bits and pieces of abandoned coal-mining towns reveal a bygone era.
For many utilities, the decision to abandon coal comes down to simple economics.
