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Coal node
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Most of Earth's coal formed during the Carboniferous Period, 359–299 million years ago, when tropical swamp forests buried plant matter that compressed into peat and coal.
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Hopi people mined coal from Arizona's Black Mesa as early as 1300 AD for pottery firing and home heating, centuries before industrial Peabody operations began in 1970.
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Archaeological excavations at Jirentaigoukou in northwestern China revealed the world's earliest systematic coal mining and burning, dating back roughly 3,600 years to the Bronze Age.