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.

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.

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 also became Ruler.

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.

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.

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.

* Christofferson, Nancy C .; Coal Was King: Huerfano County's Mining History ; 2000 ; USA

* In the video game Banjo-Tooie, there is a boss named Old King Coal.

After King Coal says that he wishes to battle Banjo and Kazooie, Kazooie reples with " I thought you were a merry old soul?

* King, P. W. ( 2002 ) " Sir Clement Clerke and the Adoption of Coal in Metallurgy ", Trans.

* Old King Coal ( Shakespeare's Rally Promotions )

In December 2006 he presented a programme in Five's Disappearing Britain series entitled When Coal was King, in which he made controversial comments about Margaret Thatcher's potential death.

* June 28-The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's King Coal passenger train makes its final run to Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

*" A Jewel In the Crown of Old King Coal Eckley Miners ' Village " by Tony Wesolowsky, Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine, Volume XXII, Number 1-Winter 1996

This will facilate traffic going between the King Coal Highway / Interstate 73 / Interstate 74 and the Coalfields Expressway ( US 121 ).

It would continue to McVeigh along Kentucky Route 199, and cross the Tug Fork River south of Matewan, West Virginia and connect with the King Coal Highway ( U. S. Route 52 ) in Mingo County, West Virginia.

The Great Haigh Fault throws the Cannel and King Coal seams close to the surface at Haigh and deeper seams outcropped east of the fault within Haigh Hall Estate.

His behaviour earned him the nickname " Old King Coal ", a pun on Old King Cole.

West Virginia Route 44 begins traveling northward from its southern terminus at The King Coal Highway ( US 52 near the Logan-Mingo county line ).

It cannot be signed as an Interstate until it has permanent connections to the east and west, both of which have not been determined because the King Coal Highway in West Virginia was demoted to a corridor-standard roadway for US 52.

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

" Coal Mine " would be a pack-in bonus single with their 1981 release, New Traditionalists.

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

* 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.

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.

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.

Coal comes next with 32. 1 %, followed by nuclear energy with 8. 3 %, natural gas ( indigenous and liquefied ) with 10. 2 %, and energy from renewable sources with 0. 5 %.

Coal production was almost 19 million tons in 2003, compared with 9. 6 million tons in 1999.

** EEC joined with European Coal and Steel Community and European Atomic Community to form the European Communities ( from the 1980s usually known as European Community ).

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 which forms as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and combine with other elements to build their tissue.

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 ;

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

The Sydney Coal Railway connects a bulk coal unloading pier in Whitney Pier with the Lingan Generating Station in Lingan.

One of the first practical and successful proposals for European cooperation came in 1951 with the European Coal and Steel Community.

The city of Rybnik is the centre of a metropolitan area, the Rybnik Coal Region () with a population of 0. 6 million.

In the years 1791 – 1797 the Prussian state-owned Royal Coal Mine was constructed ( Kopalnia Król, Königsgrube, later renamed several times with the changing political winds ).

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 )).

In 1885, the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company constructed the world's longest string of coke ovens in Walston, Pennsylvania, with 475 ovens over a length of 2 km ( 1. 25 miles ).