Coal Bluff Campground and Park Coal Bluff Campground and Park Coal Bluff Campground and Park is a semi-private campground and recreation area located along the Pearl River in Scott County, Mississippi, near the community of Ludlow. The area is managed by Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRVWSD). The name "Coal Bluff" comes from the mineral lignite, or "brown coal", commonly found in the area. The campground and park offers a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities, including camping, biking/hiking, water sports and nature viewing. The campground accommodates both primitive and R.V. campers for a nightly or monthly fee that includes graded and cement camping pads
Cannel coal the Drake Oil Well in 1859, made petroleum a cheaper raw material for making kerosene and drove the American oil shale industry out of business. Cannel coal is brown to black oil shale. It comes from resins, spores, waxes, and cutinaceous and corky materials of terrestrial vascular plants, in part from Lycopsid (scale tree). Cannel coal was accumulated in ponds and shallow lakes in peat-forming swamps and bogs of the Carboniferous age under oxygen-deficient conditions. Thus cannel coal seams are shallow and often found above other deposits, while the coal itself, being rich in oils, burns long, with a bright