Low ash & soot content — Anthracite coal is clean to touch and burns to a tight residual ash content that is easy to clean from the grate of closed appliances.

Does anthracite burn completely?

Anthracite Coal is more normally known as “hard coal”. Anthracite coal is a highly-carbonated fossil fuel that will generate the highest heat of all the fossil fuels available, and the low sulfur content in Anthracite makes it an extremely clean-burning fuel.

Does anthracite produce ash?

Anthracite contains a high amount of fixed carbon—80 to 95 percent—and very low sulfur and nitrogen—less than 1 percent each. Volatile matter is low at approximately 5 percent, with 10 to 20 percent ash possible.