# Where can I buy some Coal?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-some-coal/372826 "2006-09-15T13:23:25Z")\
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Fireplace supply store.

I was under the impression that coal should be burned in a coal-burning stove, not on an open hearth. My parents heated with anthracite for a few years, in their special coal stove, not in the fireplace. Burning anthracite, even in a contained stove, generates a fair amount of coal dust and, unless you get the temp and airflow just right, big clinkers that dustily collapse when you try to remove them from the stove.

I once lived in an apartment with a freestanding wood stove and my lease specified that I not attempt to burn coal in it.

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