Today i read a nice idea on the factorio forums: coal glow red
That would fit the theme of vulcanus a lot I think. Although with your mod now it makes it easy to see, its feels a bit, out of place.
Not sure if you could make it work? or perhaps that just the "edges" of the coal could be grey/white representing a little bit of ash ?
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=129379