Caption

A piece of anthracite from a New Zealand mine, known to the miners as rainbow coal or peacock coal. Anthracite is the purest form of coal and it appears in about 1% of coal deposits around the world

Date

Jul 19, 2012

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Lakeview Image Library

Reference

BRK24E30_353

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

69,1Mb (2,3Mb) / 20,1in x 13,4in / 6016 x 4016 (300dpi)

Keywords

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