“…The impact of igneous intrusions on the organic component of coal has been reported in the U.S.A. (Podwysocki and Dutcher, 1971;Bostick and Collins, 1987;Thorpe et al, 1998;Meyers and Simoneit, 1999), Australia (Taylor, 1961;Kisch, 1966;Kisch and Taylor, 1966;Ward et al, 1989;Gurba and Ward, 2000;Othman and Ward, 2002), Antarctica (Brown and Taylor, 1961), China (Zheng et al, 1996;Ren et al, 1999), India (Ghosh, 1967), England (Jones and Creaney, 1977), Poland (Kwiencińska et al, 1992) and Turkey (Karayigit and Whateley, 1997). As noted by Finkelman et al (1998), however, the effect of igneous intrusions on the inorganic constituents of coal has received relatively little attention from researchers other than Goodarzi and Cameron (1990), Merritt (1990), Querol et al (1997), and Querol et al (2001).…”