The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.

From being a mere village in an agricultural district at the beginning of the 19th century, the place grew rapidly in population owing to the abundance of coal and iron ore, and the population of the whole parish, 1, 486 in 1801, increased tenfold during the first half of the 19th century.

Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.

The first power plants were run on water power or coal, and today we rely mainly on coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydroelectric, and petroleum with a small amount from solar energy, tidal harnesses, wind generators, and geothermal sources.

Surrounding all is a ring or horseshoe-shaped layer of raw coal, usually kept damp and tightly packed to maintain the shape of the fire's heart and to keep the coal from burning directly so that it " cooks " into coke first.

Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

This locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at, and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended only on the contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.

In 1951, the Albanian government launched its first five-year plan, which emphasized exploiting the country's oil, chromite, copper, nickel, asphalt, and coal resources ; expanding electricity production and the power grid ; increasing agricultural output ; and improving transportation.

This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt ( less common today ), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun ( a rich fruit cake ) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder.

Canals were the first technology to allow bulk materials to be easily transported across the country, coal being a common commodity.

Abraham Gesner first distilled kerosene from bituminous coal and oil shale experimentally in 1846.

Young took out a patent on his process and the resulting products in 1850, and built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal.

The first coal mines were established in 1907, later a chemical plant was established in 1916.

In the 19th century the first railway locomotives were powered by steam, usually generated by burning wood, coal, or oil.

However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News.

* February 11 – Major streets are lit by coal gas for the first time.

* February 11 – Anthracite coal is first burned as residential heating fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

* July 17-The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.

ESD problems first arose with accidental electric spark discharges in hazardous environments such as coal mines and when refuelling aircraft or motor cars.

The Prussians discovered rich deposits of coal here and the first coal mine was established by Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden in 1796.

The first decade of the 20th century was the period of the coal boom in South Wales, when population growth exceeded 20 per cent.

The widescale use of fossil fuels, coal at first and petroleum later, to fire steam engines enabled the Industrial Revolution.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

His first conclusion, on behavior of individual items, is negative, whereas mine ( on Ath. and Yok. ) was partially positive.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

The first single, " On Point ," is noted for taking a swipe at another American rapper who claimed Irish heritage, " Marky Mark " ( Mark Wahlberg ) (" Calvin Klein's no friend of mine / So I don't like Marky ").

Mineral extraction sites such as the Dolaucothi gold mine was probably first worked by the Roman army from c. 75, and at some later stage passed to civilian operators.

The method was first used at the Dolaucothi gold mine in Wales from 75 AD onwards, but had been developed in Spain at such mines as Las Medulas.

* 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

In 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop Élie Monnier, with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac.

The famous 14th century Chinese text of the Huolongjing, which was the first to describe hollow cast iron cannonball shells filled with gunpowder, was also the first to describe the invention of the land mine in greater detail than references found in texts written beforehand.

The first land mine in Europe was created by Pedro Navarro ( d. 1528 ), a Spanish soldier, who used it in the settles of the Italian castles, in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Most important, though, were his skills as a beatmaker ; Marl was among the first to mine James Brown records for grooves and also learned how to craft his own drum loops through sampling, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his ' 80s productions a fresh, modern flavor.

When it was played over to me and I heard my own voice for the first time, one or two friends who were present said that it sounded rather like mine ; others declared that they would never have recognised it.

The mineral itself was earlier named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thereby became the first person to have a chemical element named after him, albeit indirectly.

These included sonobuoys, first developed by the British in 1944 under the codename High Tea, dipping / dunking sonar and mine detection sonar.

The result was a submarine weapon, the Minenschiff ( mine ship ), the first self-propelled torpedo, officially presented to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission on December 21, 1866.

The mine was first opened in 1805 and continued its operation until the end of the nineteenth century, when a workforce of 300 produced 8, 500 t of crude zinc annually.

* November 8 – MS City of Rayville is sunk by a naval mine, the first US merchant to be lost in the war off Cape Otway, Australia

* June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.

Some sources suggest that the first settlements in the Virgin Islands were by the Spanish, who mined copper at the copper mine on Virgin Gorda, but there is no archaeological evidence to support the existence of any settlement by the Spanish in the islands at any time, or any mining of copper on Virgin Gorda prior to the 19th century.

Kazan writes of the movie, " It's my favorite of all the films I've made ; the first film that was entirely mine.

The first successful attack on the Hejaz railroad with a locomotive-destroying " Garland mine " was led by Major H. Garland in February 1917, a month before Lawrence's first attack on the railroad in March 1917.