The British coal industry is unprofitable, has large coal stocks it can't sell.

After this, the iron industry was represented only by a small tinplate works, but by this stage the economy of the town was dominated by the coal mining industry.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

For many decades the textiles industry, the engineering industry and coal mining were the central activities of the town.

After several false starts during the 16th and 17th centuries the brass industry was also established in England taking advantage of abundant supplies of cheap copper smelted in the new coal fired reverberatory furnace.

Much of the recent economic history of Cape Breton Island can be tied to the coal industry.

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The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

So, in endorsing surveys, as well as advancing the study of geology, Lyell helped to forward the business of modern extractive industries, such as the coal and oil industry.

According to Anabela Carvalho, an academic analyst, Thatcher's " appropriation " of the risks of climate change to promote nuclear power, in the context of the dismantling of the coal industry following the 1984 – 1985 miners ' strike was one reason for the change in public discourse.

The economy continued to industrialize and urbanize, with heavy industry – especially coal and steel – becoming important in the Ruhr, and manufacturing growing in the cities, the Ruhr, and Silesia.

The industry never recovered, but by that time Scotland had developed heavy industries based on its coal and iron resources.

Conversely on occasions he attracted criticism for dogmatically pursuing schemes favoured by the right of his party, notably the privatisation of British Rail, and for closing down most of the coal industry in advance of privatisation.

Still more settlers came in the late 1960s and 1970s, when the government paid handsome bonuses to workers participating in a program to relocate Soviet industry close to the extensive coal, gas, and oil deposits of Central Asia.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

" In Washington, the Joint Chiefs declared that the " complete revival of Germany industry, particularly coal mining " was now of " primary importance " to American security.

In 1949 – 50, for instance, 40 % of the investment in the German coal industry was by these funds.

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.

British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and Yarrow Shipbuilders ; the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners ' shares had been converted into.

Heavy industry ( including coal mining and the production of machinery and steel ) was built for strategic reasons because Slovakia was less exposed to the military threat than the western parts of Czechoslovakia.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

* 2008 – An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing of coal fly ash slurry.

* 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

* 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15, 000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.

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.

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.

* October 11 – of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky ( considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill ).

* March 9 – March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.

In November 1931, Dreiser led the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners ( NCDPP ) to the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky, where they took testimony from coal miners in Pineville and Harlan on the pattern of violence against the miners and their unions by the coal operators known as the Harlan County War.

The primary mineral resources extracted for use in Allegany County are coal, iron, sandstone,

Carbon County was established in 1894 ; it received its name from the coal deposits in the region.

County farm income in 1946 was double that of 1940, and the coal mines were operating at fairly high levels.

The Warrior coal field is located in Blount County.

Two coal fields exist within Bedford County.

In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad opened the first coal mine in Carbon County, and the county was named for its extensive coal deposits.

The attempt to unionize coal miners in the county in the 1920s led to the Battle of Blair Mountain in neighboring Logan County.

Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.

The coal mining industry employed thousands of White County men for decades, but as the 20th century went on, the mines started to close and the people started to move away, and the industry had vanished by the time of World War II.

Railroad officials created the town of Tullahoma as the midpoint of the railroad's line and established extensive works there, including a spur line from Tullahoma to Manchester to McMinnville, which eventually continued to coal mines and timber holdings in White County.

Several small coal fields exist within Sullivan County.

In July 2002, Somerset County again made worldwide news when nine coal miners were rescued from several hundred feet underground from the Quecreek mine after an intense multi-day struggle.