* Soft brown coal resources also include sub-bituminous coals.
BGR (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe) is the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Commodities.
The United States was estimated to have had lignite resources amounting to 1.37 trillion metric tons in 2022, making it the country with the largest lignite resources worldwide. Russia ranked second, with lignite resources totaling 541.4 billion metric tons.
Lignite is also known as brown coal and is a soft sedimentary rock formed by compressed peat.
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