After representatives of the government met with leaders of the Jiu Valley coal miners union, thousands of miners were organized and arrived in Bucharest June 14.

By June 1941, 81 % of the miners of the national coalmining company, Charbonnages de France, were on strike, slowing deliveries of coal for the German war industry.

Miners were brought in, and the first coal was taken in June 1888.

Every year in June Providence hosts the annual Coal Festival in celebration of the coal mines and miners that have long been a part of the city's history.

A rail line was constructed into town, and coal shipments began in June 1889.

In June 1914, the company closed the Parrish breaker and began construction of a tunnel under the river to transport coal to the company's breaker in Buttonwood.

On June 11 of that year police were called to J. W. Parker's coal yard in Todmorden after the discovery of a body, subsequently identified as 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski from Tingley, near Wakefield.

On 23 June 2011, Leicestershire County Council reached agreement with UK Coal for them to extract coal and fireclay at their Minorca Opencast site near Measham.

The main group to answer the call were the coal miners of Jiu Valley, leading to the June 1990 Mineriad.

This jointly owned venture, Ethyl GmbH, was involved with the creation of the Auschwitz labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber from coal and they also built then operated tetraethyllead plants in Germany.

In 1897, the Short Brothers business started when Eustace Short ( June 1875 – 1932 ) bought a second-hand coal gas filled balloon, and he joined with his brother Oswald Short to develop and manufacture balloons.

During the 19th century the influx of people from the surrounding counties looking for work in the local ironworks and coal mines gave cricket a boost and in June 1879 " a meeting was held at the Institute to form a cricket club in the town ".

In the grounds of the Château of Mme De Clercq on the 7th June 1842 an Engineer, Monsieur Mulot, discovered the presence of coal, an economic godsend for the region which then developed a huge mining industry.

In June 1796 fishermen sheltering from bad weather discovered coal there, and the river was initially called Coal River.

Passenger services were withdrawn in 1964, and the line closed completely and was lifted from June 1986 after coal from Mardy Colliery was raised through Tower Colliery.

David Davies began test bores in the early 1880s at Graigddu ( English-Black Rock ), which proved positive, and the resultant sinking of Lady Windsor Colliery by the Ocean Coal Company on 16 June 1884 gave birth to new coal town.

The Wankie coal mine disaster in June 1972 was one of the worst ever mine disasters with 426 fatalities.

In June 1980, Zigmund Adamski, a coal miner at Lofthouse Colliery approaching retirement, set off from Tingley to go shopping in Wakefield.

The hearth burned out quickly and regular weekly repairs or rebuilding were necessary – between 24 June and 29 September 1657, for instance, thirteen new hearths were required at the Upper Mill in Wirksworth Water-powered smelting mills were restricted to riverside sites and “ white coal ” fuel required a good supply of timber.

In June 2005, Duncan announced that the Nanticoke coal plant would remain open past 2007.

* June 30, 2010 A coal train derailment in Wayzata, MN.

The first loaded coal train left Wolsingham on 16 June 2011 bound for steel works in Scunthorpe.

Norbert Berkowitz, ( 1924 – June 25, 2001 ) was a Canadian scientist involved in researching coal technology in conjunction with the Alberta Research Council and the University of Alberta.

William Ward Duffield ( November 19, 1823 – June 22, 1907 ) was an executive in the coal industry, a railroad construction engineer, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

1 / 8 share of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated June 16, 1288.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

* June 8 – A fire at the Speculator and Granite Mountain ore mine outside Butte, Montana kills at least 168 workers.

* June 15 – The Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine is named in Montana.

* June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.

* June 2 – James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker ( b. 1849 )

* June 16 – The bishop of Västerås buys 1 / 8 of the Stora Kopparberg copper mine in Falun, Sweden.

( The title refers to yellowcake, the powder produced in an early stage of the processing of uranium ore .) The Revue was first performed by the composer at the Stromness Hotel on 21 June 1980 as part of the St Magnus Festival ; the uranium mine was cancelled later that year.

In June 1954, Charles Medura was killed in the mine by a fall of rock, the last of many fatalities at the mine.

Harry Sr. managed the mine until an accident in June 1916 cost him a leg.

In addition, the wreck of the, which hit a mine while carrying Lord Kitchener north to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainland, is also a protected site.

During the Siege of Vicksburg, in 1863, Union troops led by General Ulysses S. Grant tunnelled under the Confederate trenches and detonated the mine beneath the 3rd Louisiana Redan on June 25, 1863.

Nelson himself wrote back to Ball from the Baltic on 4 June 1801: " My dear, invaluable friend ,... believe me, my heart entertains the very warmest affection for you, and it has been no fault of mine, and not a little mortification, that you have not the red ribbon and other rewards that would have kept you afloat ; but as I trust the war is at an end, you must take your flag when it comes to you, for who is to command our fleets in a future war ?...

The last mine in the Upper Harz – the Wolkenhügel Pit in Bad Lauterberg – closed its operations in June 2007 for economic reasons.

* Iraq War: Captain Phillip Esposito and 1st Lieutenant Louis Allen were killed on June 7, 2005, by a Claymore mine placed on Esposito's office window at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq.

In June 1921, Aiken organised his most successful attack on the British military, when his men detonated a mine under a British troop train headed from Belfast to Dublin, killing the train guard, three cavalry soldiers and 63 of their horses.

J. J. Lhoest, Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Zaire in Mineralogical Record volume 26, Number 3: May – June 1995 p. 163

According to a 2 June 1999 article in The Virginian-Pilot, Taylor had extensive business dealings with American televangelist Pat Robertson during the civil war and gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside.

On June 16, 1862 Langford, as a member and officer of the Northern Overland Expedition, commanded by Captain James L. Fisk, left Saint Paul to establish a wagon road to the Salmon river mine regions of the Rocky Mountains via Fort Benton.

In the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, Jones arrived in June 1912, speaking and organizing through a shooting war between United Mine Workers members and the private army of the mine owners.

After more than 1000 years during which almost 30 million tonnes of ore were extracted, the mine was closed by the Preussag company on 30 June 1988 as the mineral deposits had been largely exhausted.

World prices for metals fell in 1982, and the mine owners announced in May a two-month halt to production starting in June, 1982.