Old Coke Ovens near Los Cerrillos New Mexico Mining

Coke is a solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal.

The volatile constituents of the coal—including water, coal-gas, and coal-tar—are driven off by baking in an airless oven at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Celsius. This fuses together the fixed carbon and residual ash. Most coke in modern facilities is produced in "by-product" coke ovens, and the resultant coke is used as the main fuel in iron-making blast furnaces. Today, the hydrocarbons are considered to be by-products of modern coke-making facilities (though they are usually captured and used to produce valuable products). Non by-product coke ovens, burn hydrocarbon off-gases on site to provide the heat needed to drive the carbonization process.

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• Coke
• Ovens
• Bituminous
• Coal
• Historic
• History
• Los
• Cerrillos
• New
• Mexico

[AG4NK]

Where is the coke oven locate, is south of Madrid?

It is long time ago I saw that location before.

[GEOCACHINGJEFF]

The Coke ovens are located north-northwest of Madrid, closer to the town of Los Cerrillos N.M. You can even see them on the satellite imagary if you look close enough!!

[MyMIXmedia]

why do they call it coke, shouldnt it be just black shet.

[Engineer245]

How old are these? When were they built? Who worked here?

[sw8741]

When was this abandoned? Looks like it ancient and some sort of roman ruin.

[AntiEducation400]

Nice video GEOC I have been to crater lake when I was little and it was kind of scary but I got used to it... Nice job this video earns five stars and this is being added to my favorites.

[AG4NK]

You sre right my friend that is not far from Rogerville Rd.

Because I used to live in Cerrillos,NM in 1971.

Yes I can seen from google earth site.

[foolsterinc]

cool