Chosen Anthracite Company Chosen Anthracite Company The Chosen Anthracite Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 朝鮮無煙炭株式会社 "Chōsen Muentan Kabushiki Kaisha"; Korean: 조선무연탄주식회사 "Joseon Muyeontan Jusikhoesa") was a kabushiki kaisha in colonial Korea that operated collieries around Korea. It was founded in 1927 by the Mitsubishi "zaibatsu" of Japan by integrating the anthracite mining operations around Pyongyang, eventually becoming the largest coal-producing company in Korea - 74.9% of the coal distributed in Korea was produced by the Chosen Anthracite Company. In 1935, majority control of the Chosen Anthracite Company went to the Oriental Development Company (Japanese: "Tōyō Takushoku Kabushiki Kaisha"), which transformed the Chosen Anthracite Company into
Anthracite iron differently designed furnaces. The first American smelt of Anthracite Pig Iron was performed July 4, 1840 by principal-partners David Thomas, Josiah White and Erskine Hazard at their Lehigh Crane Iron Works in their first hot blast furnace along Catasauqua Creek aided by Samuel Thomas and the employees of the LCIW, in what became Catasauqua in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The technology enabled industries the chance to produce cast iron sufficient to demand and eventually adapt production to also feed the demand to generate wrought iron and steel. These useful materials are achieved by adding additional processing — by taking pig iron