Coal mining in the United Kingdom dates back to Roman times and occurred in many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with...

coal mining in the United Kingdom is in decline, and is planned to end in November 2023. Output has fallen every year since 2010. In 2010, the United...

collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) Coal mining in the United Kingdom "Thousands join march to mark closure of UK's last deep coal mine". The Guardian....

Mining in the United Kingdom produces a wide variety of fossil fuels, metals, and industrial minerals due to its complex geology. In 2013, there were over...

Coal mining is an industry in transition in the United States. Production in 2019 was down 40% from the peak production of 1,171.8 million short tons...

There is currently one active coal-fired power station operating in the United Kingdom, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire. It has a total generating...

The British Coal Corporation was a nationalised corporation responsible for the mining of coal in the United Kingdom from 1987 until it was effectively...

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...

Coal mining played an important part in the history of the Black Country area immediately west of Birmingham, England. It was the basis for the area's...

The Coal Authority is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)...

The history of coal mining in the United States starts with the first commercial use in 1701, within the Manakin-Sabot area of Richmond, Virginia. Coal...

The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies...

The largest coal mining companies of the world are found in several countries, the most prominent among them being the United States, Australia, India...

underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining. Coal mining is considered much more hazardous than hard rock mining due to flat-lying...

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the...

The Coal Commission was a United Kingdom government agency, created to own and manage coal reserves. It was set up in 1938 and ceased to operate on 1...

History of coal mining Coal Coal mining Coal-mining region Coal mining in the United Kingdom 1926 United Kingdom general strike South Wales Miners'...

and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highest ranking of coals. The Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States...

Coal mining regions are significant resource extraction industries in many parts of the world. They provide a large amount of the fossil fuel energy in...

control, the coal industry in the United Kingdom. It established the National Coal Board as the managing authority for coal mining and coal processing...

The Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 was an Act of Parliament which gave minimum wage protection to coal miners. It was passed in response to strikes...

UK Coal Production Ltd, formerly UK Coal plc, was the largest coal mining business in the United Kingdom. The company was based in Harworth, in Nottinghamshire...

conscripted to work in coal mines between December 1943 and March 1948, to increase the rate of coal production, which had declined through the early years of...

The National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988...

relating to coal mining, especially historical. Burns, Daniel. The modern practice of coal mining (1907) Chirons, Nicholas P. Coal Age Handbook of Coal Surface...

The 1912 United Kingdom national coal strike was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main goal was securing a minimum...

which investigated the conditions of workers (especially children) in the coal mines. Commissioners visited collieries and mining communities gathering...

most of the men had no formal artistic training, the Group and its work became celebrated in the British art world of the 1930s and 1940s. The Group began...

by the United Kingdom. (For non-renewable resources of the United Kingdom see: Coal mining in the United Kingdom, Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom...

was a piece of social legislation passed in 1908 in the United Kingdom by the Liberal government. It limited the hours a miner could work to eight hours...