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 began in this area after the Civil War, employing both tunnel and strip mines.

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 )

Coal reserves are usually stated as either ( 1 ) " Resources " (" measured " + " indicated " + " inferred " = " resources ", and then, a smaller number, often only 10-20 % of " resources ," ( 2 ) " Run of Mine " ( ROM ) reserves, and finally ( 3 ) " marketable reserves ", which may be only 60 % of ROM reserves.

With the 1951 German agreement to join the European Coal and Steel Community ( the " Schuman Plan ") the ongoing Allied dismantling of German industry was finally stopped and some of the restrictions placed on German industrial output were lifted ( see The British foreign ministers ' 1949 letter to Schuman ).

In the Vajpayee Administration, she held various state-level and cabinet level portfolios of Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs & Sports, and finally Coal & Mines.

Further closures left the region with just one deep mine by the early 1990s, and this finally closed in January 2008, by which time it had transferred to private ownership after being sold off by the National Coal Board.

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

At age 30 DeBardeleben came to Birmingham and soon acquired a controlling interest in the Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company, which was later renamed the Eureka Mining Company.

The first settlers in Coal Valley were trappers and farmers who came from Wales, England, Ireland, Germany and Sweden.

It came to be known as the " Coal Road " for the large quantities of coal transported along it.

The Anthracite Coal Fields map illustrates the mine operations in Plymouth in 1858, after the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad came to Plymouth.

) Later that year, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ( a company set up by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad to administer their anthracite properties ) came into possession of the Brookside through its purchase of the Munson and Williams lands.

Coal also came into the industry picture during Richwood's boom-era during pre-depression years.

Coal carrying came to an abrupt halt during the late 20th century when the St Aidens opencast mine was exhausted and the coal from Kellingley colliery was found to have levels of sulphur content way above the acceptable limit.

Foss came back for the recording of Coal Chamber's third album, but left after the studio sessions to raise her daughter, Kayla Moray Rose.

In fact, the idea to produce Coal Black came to Clampett after he saw Duke Ellington's 1941 musical revue Jump for Joy, and Ellington and the cast suggested Clampett make a black musical cartoon.

Coal stoves came in all sizes and shapes and different operating principles.

In 1951, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany agreed to confer powers over their steel and coal production to the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) in the Treaty of Paris, which came into force on 23 July 1952.

By the end of 1924, there were only 900 CCP members throughout China, 300 of whom came from Anyuan Coal Mine.

He first came to prominence in the Cambrian Coal Dispute in 1910 and went on to active involvement in the Miners ' Unofficial Reform Committee which published the famous syndicalist pamphlet ' The Miners ' Next Step ' in 1912.

The production of the entire Middle Coal Field came to the LVRR over feeders to the Beaver Meadow: the Quakake Railroad, the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad, the Hazelton Railroad, the Lehigh Luzerne Railroad, and other smaller lines.

He came to public notice acting for victims of thalidomide in the late 1960s in their action for damages against the manufacturer of the drug, Distillers, which was settled before trial, and as counsel for the families of the victims at the public inquiry into the Aberfan disaster in 1967, in which he condemned the " callous indifference, incompetence, ignorance, and inertia " in the National Coal Board.

Consequently, the large scale enterprises which came to characterize the industrialized eastern half of the region, such as the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company ( marketer of the coal branded " Old Company's Lehigh "), the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and the Bethlehem Iron Company ( later known as Bethlehem Steel ) were founded by English speaking residents from the Philadelphia and New York areas.

The Fuel and Lighting ( Coal ) Order 1941 came into force in January 1942.

In 1874, Franklin B. Gowen came under attack again, this time charged before stockholders of accounting sleight of hand — of cloaking continuous losses in the Coal & Iron Co. by infusing into that subsidiary as " capital investment " funds borrowed by the parent railroad, only to mysteriously shuffle large portions of that " investment " back to the parent to cover high dividends paid to railroad shareholders.

He thought the road to prosperity came through the railway and was involved in the Canadian Pacific Railway, Alberta Southern Railway Company, Rocky Mountain Railway, Coal Company, North-West Central Railway and a proposed line between Calgary and Hudson Bay.

In 1869, John Brogden died and his eldest son Alexander Brogden came to Tondu to take charge of the business and in 1872 formed a new company, the Llynvi, Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company Limited, for Brogdens ’ Glamorgan business interests.

The State Coal Mine and the town of Wonthaggi came into being in 1910 to supply coal for the steam trains in Victoria.

Large-scale industrialization came to the Sydney Coal Field when two large conglomerates were formed in the 1890s: the Dominion Coal Company, or DOMCO ( in 1893 ), and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, or SCOTIA ( in 1900 ).