The Story of Scottish Coal

Scotland has a variety of different types of coal, but its coking coal was especially important to the iron and steel industries. Some of the most important deposits of coking coal were found to the east of Glasgow, an example being that at Auchengeich Colliery, at which battery coke ovens were built adjacent to the pithead. Some parts of the Scottish coalfields near to volcanic geology have also yielded some high-quality anthracite, and in other areas, the coal was well-suited for producing town gas.