NOVELTY - Particulate composition (I) having a particle distribution size for gasification in a fluidized bed zone, comprises an intimate mixture of: a carbonaceous fines material (A); a particulate carbonaceous feedstock material (B); and a gasification catalyst (C) which, in the presence of steam and under suitable temperature and pressure, exhibits gasification activity.    USE - (I) is useful for converting a carbonaceous feedstock into many gaseous products (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - (I) allows for recovery, recycling, and ultimate conversion of carbonaceous fines, such as entrained carbonaceous fines from the gas effluent after gasification of carbonaceous feedstock, into usable feedstock to generate product gas. (I) has better fluidic properties when compared to a feedstock that does not comprise carbonaceous fines material, during the gasification process. (I) reduces the expenses of handling, storage and disposal operations of carbonaceous fines waste.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Particulate composition (I) having a particle distribution size for gasification in a fluidized bed zone, comprises an intimate mixture of: a carbonaceous fines material (A) having an average particle size of less than 45 microns; a particulate carbonaceous feedstock material (B) having a particle distribution size for gasification in a fluidized bed zone; and a gasification catalyst (C) which, in the presence of steam and under suitable temperature and pressure, exhibits gasification activity; where: many gases comprise methane and one or more of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and other higher hydrocarbons are formed from the particulate composition; (A) and (B) are present in a weight ratio of 1:99-99:1; (A) is physically associated with (B); (A) and (B) each comprise a gasification catalyst; and (C) comprises a source of at least one alkali metal and is present in (I), in an amount sufficient to provide a ratio of alkali metal atoms to carbon atoms of 0.01-0.08. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for:    (1) the preparation of (I) comprising: providing (A) comprising a gasification catalyst; providing (B); contacting (B) with an aqueous medium comprising a gasification catalyst to form a slurry; dewatering the slurry to form a wet cake; mixing the particulate carbonaceous fines material with the wet cake to form a wet particulate composition; and thermally treating the wet particulate composition to form (I); and    (2) a continuous process for converting a carbonaceous feedstock into many gaseous products, comprising: (a) preparing (I) by the above method; (b) supplying (I) to a gasifying reactor comprising an internal fines remover and/or an external fines remover, for removing gas-entrained fines materials; (c) reacting (I) in the gasifying reactor in the presence of steam and under suitable temperature and pressure to form a first gas stream comprising the gaseous products and a gas-entrained carbonaceous fines material; (d) at least partially capturing the gas-entrained carbonaceous fines material in the internal fines remover and/or external fines remover; (e) recovering the captured carbonaceous fines materials from the internal fines remover and/or external fines remover; and (f) recycling the captured carbonaceous fines material to (I).