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Coal Geology & Exploration

Open Access

Open Access Statement

In order to support the sharing and exchange of knowledge on a global scale, this journal is  open access. All articles will be immediately and permanently stored on our website upon publication and can be read and downloaded by readers free of charge.

Permission Statement

1. Coal Geology & Exploration uses Creative Commons license to allow third-party users to share articles published in this journal under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) approach, that is, third parties are allowed to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, perform, screen, broadcast, or spread the articles published in this journal to the public through the information network.

2. Third parties must give credit to the original author and the journal in which it was first published when using it. Non-commercial purposes only, and no creative interpretation is allowed.

3. For more information, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Copyright Statement

The authors sign a“Copyright Authorization Agreement” with the journal during the submission process on the official website of Coal Geology & Exploration.

With the acceptance of the paper, the agreement is effective immediately, and all the authors agree to the statement in the “Copyright License Agreement”,which means authors agree to transfer the rights to the editorial board of Coal Geology and Exploration. all rights including to reproduce and distribute the paper as a whole and any figures, tables, abstracts or other parts from the work that can be extracted from the paper, but not limited to rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination.

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