Jevons expressed his concern about the eventual depletion of coal resources in his book The Coal Question.

It was for The Coal Question ( 1865 ), in which he called attention to the gradual exhaustion of the UK's coal supplies, that he received public recognition.

A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold ( 1863 ) and The Coal Question ( 1865 ) placed him in the front rank as a writer on applied economics and statistics ; and he would be remembered as one of the leading economists of the 19th century even had his Theory of Political Economy never been written.

In The Coal Question, Jevons covered a breadth of concepts on energy depletion that have recently been revisited by writers covering the subject of peak oil.

The Coal Question remains a paradigmatic study of resource depletion theory.

* 1865 The Coal Question

* The Coal Question – Encyclopedia of Earth

* The Coal Question ( also available here )

The Jevons paradox was first described by the English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book The Coal Question.

Some definitions may include Coal mines.

Some workers had already returned to work of their own accord, a symbolic victory for the Coal Board management, although ministers later admitted that the figures of returners were inflated to hurt the strikers ' morale.

In 1949, his organizational research work, studying work crews in a coal mine, with Ken Bamsforth, resulted in the famous article, " Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal Getting.

On 20 December 1699, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. His candidacy citation noted that he was " A Gentleman who is well acquainted with many of the works of Nature and Art, & who hath lately obliged the Society with Some Curious Experiments relating to the damps of Coal Mines ",

Some coal seams, such as those in certain areas of the Illawarra Coal Measures in NSW, Australia, contain little methane, with the predominant coal seam gas being carbon dioxide.

Some coal operators remained outside the coal pool, and for these the Reading Railroad devised a new annoyance: continuing to load coal cars with Coal & Iron Co. anthracite even beyond the Reading's allotted tonnage, then lining these loaded cars on side tracks, thus limiting the availability of empty cars for hauling the other mine operators ' output.

This development is one of the factors which led to large-scale industrial development in the Sydney Coal Field of eastern Cape Breton County.

* the Inverness Coal Field in the western part of the island along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is significantly smaller but hosted several mines

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

Coal tar is a brown or black liquid of extremely high viscosity.

Coal tar is among the by-products when coal is

Coal tar is incorporated into some parking-lot sealcoat products, used to protect and beautify the underlying pavement.

Coal tar is also used to manufacture paints, synthetic dyes, and photographic materials.

When used in the extemporaneous preparation of topical medications, it is supplied in the form of Coal Tar Topical Solution USP, which consists of a 20 % w / v solution of coal tar in alcohol, with an additional 5 % w / v of polysorbate 80 ; this must then be diluted in an ointment base such as petrolatum.

Coal tar concentrations between 0. 5 % and 5 % are safe and effective for psoriasis, and no scientific evidence suggests that the coal tar in the concentrations seen in non-prescription treatments is carcinogenic.

* 1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

* 1952 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.

* Coal measure is a seam of coal

mining is derived from one of the world's largest bituminous coalfields of the Upper Silesian Industrial District ( Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy ) and the Rybnik Coal District ( Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy ) with its major cities Rybnik, Jastrzębie Zdrój, Żory and Wodzisław Śląski.

* April 18 – The Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ) is adopted, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

* Coal gas is first used for illumination.

Coal contains a small amount of radioactive uranium, barium, thorium and potassium, but, in the case of pure coal, this is significantly less than the average concentration of those elements in the Earth's crust.

Coal is considered a type of sedimentary rock.

Peabody Western Coal Company is one of the largest coal operations on Hopi land, with long-time permits for continued mining.

Coal fueled electricity generation alone is a much greater source of heavy metal contamination in the environment than fireworks.

It is home to three low-income housing projects, two elderly high-rise apartment buildings, and the AHL team The Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in Coal St Park.

It is discovered that Hanner Coal Company, owned by Orin Hanner Sr. ( Kris Kristoffersson ), is being paid to dump toxic waste into an abandoned coal mine shaft, so Jack is assigned to go to the small town of Jackson, where his cover is that of assistant and volunteer carpenter to a local church.

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

Under the Coal Industry Nationalisation ( Superannuation ) Regulations of 1950, a pension scheme for mineworkers was established.

As historian Eric Shaw noted of the years following nationalisation, the electricity and gas supply companies became “ impressive models of public enterprise ” in terms of efficiency, and the National Coal Board was not only profitable, but working conditions for miners had significantly improved as well.

His father worked for the National Coal Board and his mother was a singer with the Welsh National Opera.

Attempts to gain control of or internationalize permanently the Ruhr area ( see International Authority for the Ruhr ) were abandoned in 1951 with the German agreement to pool its coal and steel resources ( see European Coal and Steel Community ) in return for full political control of the Ruhr.

Later that year, she joined Loretta Lynn and country singer Miranda Lambert on an update of Lynn's song " Coal Miner's Daughter " for the 2010 album Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

Helm received many plaudits for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff.

For example, in Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. ( 2009 ), the Court ruled that a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia had to recuse himself from a case involving a major contributor to his campaign for election to that court.

Gladstone passed the Coal Vendors Act 1843 to set up a central office for employment.

The album was nonetheless a personal high point for Partridge, who ranks songs such as "( The Everyday Story of ) Smalltown " and " Train Running Low on Soul Coal " amongst his best work.

Coal and gas are rarely used for either domestic and industrial purposes.

* May – June – Merthyr Rising 1831: Coal miners and others riot in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales for improved working conditions.

On the basis of that speech, France, Italy, the Benelux countries ( Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg ) together with West Germany signed the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ) creating the European Coal and Steel Community the following year ; this took over the role of the International Authority for the Ruhr and lifted some restrictions on German industrial productivity.

Coal can simply be dug up and burned for little financial cost, one of the main costs being shipping.

Coal was used to run furnaces for the melting of metal ore. Semi-solid hydrocarbons from seeps were also burned in ancient times, but these materials were mostly used for waterproofing and embalming.

In 1963-64, First Indian Small Scale Industrial Unit with Japanese Plant for Rubber Belts for Conveyor / Elevator / Transmission was installed near National Capital Territory of Delhi and its MrBelts Conveyor Belting has been widely used in Steel, Cement, Fertilizer, Thermal Power, Sponge Iron Plants and Coal / Mineral establishments / Mines, Port Trusts and similar material handling applications of Industry for the last over 4 decades ;