Cannel coal or candle coal is a type of bituminous coal, also classified as terrestrial type oil shale. Due to its physical morphology and low mineral...

Coal oil is a shale oil obtained from the destructive distillation of cannel coal, mineral wax, or bituminous shale, once used widely for illumination...

bituminous coal, which is humic (composed of decayed woody tissue of plants). Cannel coal is composed mostly of plant spores, while boghead coal is composed...

community was named for the deposits of cannel coal in the area. Cannelton was established in 1849. Cannel coal was discovered in 1848. Ben Burdette, who...

Early settlers in the region discovered that outcrops of (Cannel) Coal along the Big Coal River could be utilized as an excellent source of heat and...

or powdered for lubrication. Cannel coal (sometimes called "candle coal"), a variety of fine-grained, high-rank coal with significant hydrogen content...

resources in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The first is cannel coal, which was used widely in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western Virginia...

simply "gas") were made by gasification of combustible materials, usually coal, but also wood and oil, by heating them in enclosed ovens with an oxygen-poor...

shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the...

Catholic church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was erected. Cannel coal was found in Aspull. There were several large collieries dating back...