Much of the high quality anthracite coal is gone,

As a result, Afghanistan will remain what it was a violent and ungovernable tribal melange.

Next, I set out roach motels glue traps baited with a pheromone melange in each of these locations.

look after a Sidiboy fireman in a cutaway coat and yellowish trousers, whose black face had silky gleams like a lump of anthracite coal.

The second refers to the study of syncretisms between two cultures with different stages of formal expression, such as the melange of African folk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería, and similar mixtures of formal religions with folk cultures.