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

The last 15 – 20 years has also seen Hobart's wine industry thrive as many vineyards have developed in countryside areas outside of the city in the Coal River Wine Region and D ' Entrecasteaux Channel, including Moorilla Estate at Berriedale one of the most awarded vineyards in Australia.

Coal dust explosions can also begin independently of methane gas explosions.

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.

He also used this time to write A New Deal for Coal which used his wartime experience to argue for nationalisation of the coal mines on the grounds of the improved efficiency he predicted would ensue.

Coal mining became prominent in the 19th century to the east of Lough Allen in Sliabh an Iariann and also to the west in Arigna, on the Roscommon border.

Coal and shale mining was also carried out in the Jamison Valley for many years, but when the seams were completely exhausted by the early 20th century, Katoomba was an established resort town.

He subsequently met W. H. Auden, who was also working for the GPO Film Unit ; together they worked on the films Coal Face and Night Mail.

Robson played football whenever he possibly could but also worked as an electrician's apprentice for the National Coal Board in the Langley Park colliery.

The Treaty also contained provisions to deal with the financial consequences of the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) treaty ( Treaty of Paris ( 1951 )).

It was also owned by the Consolidated Coal Company.

A through-line of the Norfolk Southern Railway line passes through the community, and also provides services to the nearby Buckingham Coal Company mine.

Coal mining is also an important industry ; strip-style mines are currently operating on both the north and south sides of the town.

Coal mining has also affected the flow and water quality of small streams.

The Chauncey was also known as the Union Mine, and from about 1861 to 1866 the Union Coal Co., in association with Charles Hutchison, operated the mine, working both a shaft and a slope.

He purchased the Chauncey in 1902, and operated it as the George F. Lee Coal Co and also ran a coal distribution center in Brooklyn, New York.

The New York Iron and Coal Company also built an iron furnace near the mouth of Frozen Run in 1831.

The valley is also part of the anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania, fire clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's principal industries are still the mining and shipping of coal although the demand for it has steadily declined since its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

More important than the local runs, Blossburg Coal was being shipped to Albany where it influenced railroad and canal navigation legislation, and also to Philadelphia where it attracted the enterprising businessmen.

Knapp also opened coal mines on Coal Run and ore mines on " Barney Hill ".

Coal had also become one of the main products of Chartiers Township for many years.

In its first year, colonists were asked to settle Johnson Fort, now Enoch, where a stockade was built, and were also sent to settle along Coal Creek, site of the settlement to manufacture iron which became Cedar City.

Big Stone Gap also hosts the Coal Museum. Henry Meador Coal Museum

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

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.

By the early twentieth century Sydney became home to one of the world's largest steel plants, fed by the numerous coal mines in the area under the ownership of the Dominion Coal Company.

Bevan became a well-known local orator and was seen by his employers, the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company, as a revolutionary.

After a brief period as medical officer for Hatfield College, Durham, and temporary work for the National Coal Board, he became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in 1977.

Two Scotsmen, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company and opened a mine behind what later became Midland School.

Coal became King, and with Western Pennsylvania as his Capital, it was only logical that Greensboro became part of this movement.

In 1866, the mine was transferred to the Steuben Coal Co., which in turn became part of the Nanticoke Coal & Iron Co., whose board of directors overlapped with the board of the DL & W.

In 1874, the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co. became part of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., which acquired the property, but by some arrangement the mine was operated by the Parrish Coal Co., organized in 1884.

However, in July 1871, Bonnell sold the improvements and leased the coal rights to the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co., and in February 1876, Bonnell sold the property outright to the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. Lance, who moved to Philadelphia and became a mat manufacturer, spent years in court, suing his old friend Bonnell in a futile attempt to recover the mine.

The company was eventually renamed to the United Coal Company and in 1918 it became the Davis Coal Company.

The Convulsion Canyon mine continued to grow, and became a part of Arch Coal, Inc., known as the SUFCO Mine.

The Dale Coal Company became one of the more successful from about 1924-1941, followed by the Continental Coal Company from 1942 – 1944, the Anderson Coal Company from 1943 – 1948 ; and Palmer Coking Coal Company from 1937-1975.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

In 1922, the United Mine Workers struck the Coronado Coal Company.

Then the skiff hove into sight, just a dot of light at first against the roiling blackness and crimson streaks of the Coal Sack.

But fusion power in the Coal Sack was what had triggered all the trouble in the first place -- and he already had an Angel aboard.

The hymn has been employed in several films, including Alice's Restaurant, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Silkwood.

* Welsh Coal Mines-details of all the local pits.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

Image: CoalbargePittsburgh. JPG | Coal barges passing Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Ohio River.

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

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

Coal mining, the railways, road haulage, canals and cable and wireless were nationalised in 1947, electricity and gas followed in 1948.

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 tars are complex and variable mixtures of phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ), and heterocyclic compounds, about 200 substances in all.

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

Coal tar was formerly used as one of the primary ingredients of Tarmacadam pavements, when mixed with ironworks slag.

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.

Coal tar causes increased sensitivity to sunlight, so skin treated with topical coal tar preparations should be protected from sunlight.

Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face.