Warhol's father worked in a coal mine.

In the early years of Aberdare's development, most of the coal worked in the parish was coking coal, and was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks.

The US mining industry is also large but it is dominated by the coal and nonmetal minerals, and the various regulations have worked to reduce the significance of mining in the United States.

Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second World War looking after the pit ponies.

He worked for the Foundation until 1918, forming a close working association and friendship with Rockefeller, advising him through the turbulent period of the 1914 strike and Ludlow massacre at a family-owned coal company in Colorado, which subsequently set the stage for a new era in labor management in America.

These were the men who worked on London docks, " whipping " in baskets from ships to barges or wharves all incoming coal from the sea.

The youth worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia for several years, then made his way east to Hampton Institute, a school established to educate freedmen, where he worked to pay for his studies.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has worked out several energy technologies in the field of coal gasification, shale oil extraction, geothermal energy, advanced battery research, solar energy, and fusion energy.

Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner and produced his best known novel.

He dismantled a brass clock and built a wooden replica that, by all accounts, worked " well enough ", and he learned to draw, making his own materials from coal, chalk and ruddle ( Iron ore ).

More recent research has revealed that the grave actually belongs to Joseph Dawson, an Irishman who worked in Titanics boiler room as a coal trimmer.

He was also called " Miner " because he had worked in coal mines in western Indiana before his baseball career.

This included children who rolled cigarettes, engaged in factory work, worked as bobbin doffers in textile mills, worked in coal mines and were employed in canneries.

Cecil Williams ( 1922 – 2008 ), a Louisiana journalist and business writer, was born in McRoberts and worked in the coal mines prior to service in World War II.

Bluegrass Band signed to Rural Rhythm Records and named after a now defunct coal mine in honor of the people who worked there, the band holds The Key To The City, awarded in 2012.

At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3, 000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.

Weldon had worked for the U. S. Geological Survey mapping Indian Territory before the war and knew of the rich coal deposits.

The remaining property was bought by the Allied Chemical & Dye Co. whose Barrett Division worked on the development of coal and tar products.

Children as young as 8 or 9 worked 14-hour days separating slate from coal in the breakers.

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

" In 1945, the Gaylord worked 284 days and produced 26, 301 tons of coal.

The Boswell mine closed on March 29, 1939 due to the excessive cost of transporting coal to the surface ( the Jerome mine worked until 1954 ).

) Peter Weissmuller worked as a miner, and his youngest son, Peter Weissmüller, Jr., was born in Windber on 3 September 1905.

After his first trip to Africa, Turnbull traveled to Yellowknife in the northwest territories of Canada, where he worked as a geologist and gold miner for approximately a year, before he went back to school to obtain another degree.

Phoebe Hearst and Thomas Grier, the Homestake Mine superintendent worked together to create the Homestake Opera House and Recreation Center for the benefit of miner workers and their families.

José fled to the mountains near Acaponeta, Nayarit, and worked for a while as a miner.

The mining valleys produced a significant working-class poet in Idris Davies ( 1905 – 53 ), who worked as a coal miner before qualifying as a teacher.

Wilde was the son of a coal miner and worked in the coal pits himself.

There he worked in a variety of jobs, as a miner, flax-cutter and storeman, before becoming involved in the union movement.

Elaine Morman, an employee at Clearwell Caves in the Forest, who had worked as a miner of ochre for a number of years, raised a claim of sexual discrimination against the Forestry Commission.

During his early years, he worked as a gold miner and a cowboy.

Initially, he worked as a miner, as his father had done in Ireland, and then briefly as a publican, but he later ran his own successful printing business which specialised in publishing leftist political works, many of which Wheatley wrote himself such as

He worked as a tool maker for the Ford Motor Company, as a miner, a real estate agent, and a night club dancer.

In 1891 Tokoi emigrated to America, where he worked as a miner in the Western state of Wyoming and was a member of the radical Western Federation of Miners.

Skinner himself worked as a miner for over 20 years, during which he became a NUM leader and Clay Cross Labour Party councillor.

He originally worked as a miner, but had an accident at Silverwood Colliery in 1967 by slipping in the pit-head baths on some soap, resulting in double herniated discs, and he was pensioned off from the pit at the age of 27.

Born in Neštich (), Austria-Hungary ( now part of Smolenice, Slovakia ), Banič immigrated to the United States and worked as a coal miner in Greenville, Pennsylvania.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.

St. John worked as a miner from the age of seventeen, moving to Telluride, Colorado in 1897.

His father, Albert Bertuzzi, is an Italian-Canadian who worked as a miner and in the window-washing business.

He worked as a miner in Fife where he became involved with the National Union of Mineworkers.

There the Blongers were joined by two other brothers: Simon, the eldest, who worked as superintendent at the Robert E. Lee Mine, and Marvin, the youngest, also a miner.

Shaw worked as a farmer, coal miner, explorer, and auctioneer before he began making a living as a journalist and writer in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1858.

In 1965, on leaving school, he worked as a miner with the National Coal Board for nineteen years, and remained a member of the National Union of Mineworkers until 1988.

His father worked as a coal miner and later as the assistant manager of the arena in Port Hood when the mine closed while his mother was a school teacher.