What is the importance of coal in explosive & fertilizer industry?

Question

What is the importance of coal in explosive & fertilizer industry?

Answer 1

natural gas is the feed stock for fertilizers . during second world war coal technological was developed to manufacture fertilizers from coal based compounds by germany

Answer 2

In mining, fertilizer is mixed with diesel fuel and pumped down drill holes to blast away large areas of rock and stone.

Answer 3

Do you mean what is the importance of fetilizer based explosives in the coal industry?

I don't know. But ammonium nitrate based explosives are used when quarrying stone. I imagine it might also be used in open cast coal mining. Either that or dynamite. Coal is cut from the face underground by machines. and carried away either in trucks or by conveyer belt.

Answer 4

Coal can be used as carrier material in preparation of Bio-fertilizer (fertilizer prepared form bacteria like Rhizobium sp, Azotobacter sp).

In explosive industry, it is also used as filler material to create extra pressure.