It used to be that you could TinyWE coal ore and pick up its coal, but that was disabled a couple versions ago. Subsequently, coal must be tediously mined manually.
Please post here whether you would prefer that it be changed back or kept the same as it is now.
I have a slight preference that coal ore be TinyWE-able, but I don't think it's a big deal if it stays the same since coal is easy to buy in shops.