Category: Coal mining disasters in Wales

Category: Coal mining disasters in Wales

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

Coal mining continued to grow into the 20th century, producing the fuel to heat homes, factories and drive steam engines locomotives and steamships.

Coal mining in Britain, particularly in South Wales started early.

Coal mining was very dangerous owing to the presence of firedamp in many coal seams.

: Violence occurs between striking members of a miners ' union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies .< ref > The Coal Riot.

Coal, iron ore, and molybdenum are found in South Korea, but not in large quantities and mining operations are on a small scale.

Coal mining declined during the next two decades but has increased again following the end of Communist rule.

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 mining takes place in the three mountainous regions at 40 distinct coal beds near Mesozoic basins.

Category: Coal mining regions in France

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.

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

Coal mining activities began in 1792, after the first coal outcrop was discovered by Matthew Hammer.

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.

* New Hope Coal, an Australian coal mining company

Coal mining gained importance for Rybnik's economy as early as the 18th century.

Coal mining in the area was first mentioned in 1536.

Coal mining, both strip and underground, has been an important industry in Meigs County since the late 19th century, although mining of all types largely ceased by the 1990s.

Coal mining and timber harvesting played major roles in Athens County's economy, as did the treatment and care of the mentally ill.

Only Buckingham Coal is still mining in the county, in Trimble Township north of Glouster.

* Hunosa ( Coal mining )

One of the oldest common institutions, it began as the " Common Assembly " of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ).

* 1894: The Bituminous Coal Miners ' Strike, an unsuccessful national eight-week strike by miners of hard coal in the United States, which began on April 21, 1894.

Keith, agent of the Central Coal and Coke Company in Kansas City, Missouri, began buying virgin timber in the fall of 1899.

At about this time, in the early 1880s, the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railroad began operating a north – south line through the county.

Coal mining began about the start of the 20th century at Virginia City.

Whiteash began as a coal mining community around the Chicago and Marion Coal Company's mine organized by Charles A. Gent of nearby Marion, Illinois.

Wallins Creek began life as a coalmining town in 1925 ; the mine was owned by the Wallins Creek Coal Corporation.

The town of Earlsborough ( as it was spelled on the town plat ) began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway ( later the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ) built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory.

By 1832, Lewis Weiss began building boats for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and the Morris Canal & Banking Company.

On February 9, 1935, Glen Alden Coal Co. ( successor to the DL & W ) began to dismantle and demolish the Avondale breaker and to close the mine.

" In 1883, William Lance's old breaker was torn down and on June 30, 1883 the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. began building a new breaker.

Coal mining began in the next year.

The real mining history of Blossburg Coal began shortly after 1810 when David Clemens made the first effort to mine and market coal.

Coal trains were soon replaced with diesel and the mines began to shut down in the 1920s.

Settlement began in the area near Wright in the 1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States.

According to historian Keith Glass, the Windrock Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company of Birmingham began operating a coal mine near Oliver Springs circa 1904.

Coal mining at Nostell began in the 9th Century and continued until 1987.

The early 1880s began badly for the GNR for a number of reasons: Coal strikes and poor harvests reduced income from goods traffic.

Other ironworks followed: building of the Frodingham Ironworks began in 1864 ; North Lincoln Ironworks in 1866 ; Redbourn Hill Iron & Coal Company in 1872 ; Appleby Ironworks blew in their first blast furnace in 1876 ; and the last constructed being John Lysaght's Iron and Steelworks in 1911, with production starting in 1912.

Nanaimo began as a trading post in the early 19th century ; in 1849 the Snuneymuxw chief Ki-et-sa-kun (" Coal Tyee ") informed the Hudson's Bay Company of the presence of coal in the area, and in 1853 the company built a fort known as the Nanaimo Bastion ( still preserved ).

This process began with the Inner Six, who founded the European Coal and Steel Community ( the EU's predecessor ) in 1952.

He began his career with the National Coal Board as a miner in 1958, becoming a pit electrician from 1967 until his election to parliament twenty years later.