White coal is a form of fuel produced by drying chopped wood over a fire.
White coal was used in England to melt lead ore from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries.
[1][dubious – discuss] White coal could be used mixed with charcoal for other industrial uses than lead smelting.
White coal manufacturing capacity is increasing in the state of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.
The production of white coal (briquettes made of biomass) using agricultural and forest waste is more common in North India.