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
History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania British navy blockades through during the war, industrialist Josiah White set his mill supervisors the task of experimenting with Anthracite to get to ignite and burn in a useful way. In 1813, the first mining actually in the Lehigh Valley was begun at Beaver Meadows, however, because of the various struggles getting it the to Philadelphia and because it is far more difficult to ignite Anthracite with its sporadic and unreliable supply did not come to be generally used regularly until after the War of 1812 and Hazard and White showed the way. The developments of the canal and then