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Article | REF: C5371 V1

Use of industrial sub-products - Coal shales

Authors: Pierre ROSSI, Ludovic GAVOIS, Guy RAOUL

Publication date: August 10, 2008 | Lire en français

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    1. Origin, formation and classification

    The term "coalshale" is associated with coal mining. It is commonly understood as the by-product resulting from the separation of coal from the waste rock that inevitably accompanies its extraction in the mine.

    Waste rock is therefore coal shale, and can include materials of different natures, notably sandstone interlayers.

    Nota

    The term "shale" is in fact a misnomer, because in the petrographic sense, shale refers to any geological formation affected by tectonics that has produced schistosity in the material.

    1.1 Coal mining

    All coal mines are now closed.

    To understand the nature of coal shales, we...

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