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	History of Coal Mining in Washington Coal
		Coal, coal, was the cry of pioneers of Puget Sound from the earliest advent of white men and the topic of never-ending discussion in pioneer newspapers.
		By the end of the year 1875 the mines at Renton were able to ship their coal by rail, and a short time after the road had reached the Newcastle mine and had made available the vast quantity stored in those rich hills which is not yet exhausted after sixty years of shipment.
		Coal mining in the state may be said to date from 1848, when small outcroppings of lignite were worked to some extent along the banks of the Cowlitz.
	www.burgesslegacy.org /coalhst.htm (8157 words)

	History of coal mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest use of coal in the Americas was by the Aztecs.
		Coal was discovered in the Manakin area of Virginia circa 1701; the first known commercial coal mines began operation in America in 1748 near Manakin Virginia.
		Coal is also the most common source material for creating coke, a clean-burning high-energy fuel used for smelting iron ore and other purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_coal_mining (896 words)

	Coal mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coal mining is the extraction of coal from the Earth for use as fuel.
		Highwall mining is a form of coal mining in which a continuous miner is controlled remotely from outby, or outside the mine, and is guided along the seam straight back drilling holes in excess of 500 feet.
		See the main article History of coal mining The oldest continuously worked deep-mine in the UK and possibly the world is Tower Colliery at the northern end of the south Wales valleys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coal_mining (983 words)

	GeoFact No. 14, History of Coal Mining in Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The existence of coal in Ohio was first noted as early as 1748 by frontiersmen and travelers who told of a coal mine on fire at the mouth of Lamanshikola Creek (present-day Sandy Creek) near Bolivar, Tuscarawas County.
		During most of the 19th century, coal was mined by hand with the aid of animals such as mules, ponies, goats, oxen, and even dogs.
		Early surface mining in Ohio consisted of mining coal that was exposed along hillsides, using picks and shovels and in some cases horse-drawn scrapers.
	www.ohiodnr.com /geosurvey/geo_fact/geo_f14.htm (1408 words)

	Llansamlet History, Industry, Coal-Mining. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The coal was worked near Margam, in the hill district of Penhydd extending to the River Ffrwdwyllt, and was intended for use at the Monk’s Grange of Rossoulin and for the Abbey at Margam and its tenants.
		Coal was being produced in the Lordship of Kilvey before 1340 and by the close of the century it was being worked on a considerable scale as seen from the accounts of the mine for the year 1399 -1400.
		Bussy Manselll was exporting coal from the town quay of Neath in 1663 and was mining Neath Abbey lands in 1670.
	www.page-net.com /swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/coalmining.html (4884 words)

	History of Coal Mining in Golden, CO
		The White Ash coal mine and its dump are in the foreground.
		The coal mining industry of Golden is one of its greatest and one on which the growth and prosperity and foundation of the place is largely based.
		It seems that as a car of coal was being hoisted from the mine, the weight of which was nearly a ton, the arm attached to the piston rod of the engine, broke at the fastening to the drive wheel and flew back with such force as to cause it to penetrate the cylinder head.
	www.mines.edu /fs_home/tboyd/Coal/history/index.html (3352 words)

	Early Coal Mining History.
		The coal seam was usually visible at the side of the hill (known as outcrop coal), the coal was first removed from the side of the hill, then the miners had to follow the seam further and further underground, the coal was worked until the working conditions became unsafe.
		By 1683, some of the bigger mines were using timber to support the roof, this enabled coal to be mined much further away from the mine entrance.
		Coal was extracted from an area underground, (the 'rooms', stalls etc.), pillars of coal were left in to support the roof.
	www.pitwork.net /history1.htm (4962 words)

	History of Coal Mining in Ohio
		Coal mining in Ohio began around 1800 and during its first 150 years, was an unregulated industry.
		These underground mining operations gained access to coal seams by vertical mine shafts of up to 200 feet deep, by horizontal mine entries (drift entries) cut into hillsides at the coal elevation, or by sloping tunnels angling downward from the ground surface.
		Surface mining involves excavation of all of the rock and soil (overburden) above the desired coal seam, exposing the coal seam at the surface.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /mineral/mining/history/tabid/17883/Default.aspx (328 words)

	Coal Mining: Renton's Black Diamond Industry
		By 1970, the coal mining operation in the city of Black Diamond (east of Renton) was the last surviving large scale and active coal mining operation.
		Coal mine shafts in the area were often driven deep into a hillside, at a 12-percent grade, reaching lengths of more than a mile underground.
		Rustic log cabins were commonplace in the early coal mining (as well as logging) camps that dotted the hillsides and valleys east and to the north of Renton.
	www.burgesslegacy.org /coal.htm (2527 words)

	History of Coal Mining
		The coal was extracted from drift mines in the Pittsburgh coal seam, which outcrops along the hillside, and transported by canoe to the nearby military garrison.
		The room and pillar mining method is used in all of Pennsylvania’s underground bituminous coal mines including longwall mining operations, where it is used to develop the haulage and ventilation systems, and to delineate and support the longwall panels.
		Early mining companies did not have the technology or knowledge to realize the long term effects of mining, therefore, the hundreds of years of coal mining in Pennsylvania have left the descendents of coal miners over 2,400 miles of streams polluted by abandoned mine drainage from old mining operations.
	facweb.stvincent.edu /eec/MRIP/history_of_coal_mining.htm (748 words)

	Pennsylvania Coal Mine History
		If the mine officials thought that he couldn't make the trip up to Ashland, he would be taken to his home for his wife to make him as comfortable as she possibly could for the short remainder of his life.
		Anthracite Coal was already discovered in parts of Wyoming County (which at that time was a part of the large Northampton County.) To get a better idea of when and where the first coal mines were, I will try to give a break down through the years about the finding and use of coal.
		The very first coal mined that is recorded was coal that was mined during the Roman Occupation of Britain in 55 BC to 436 AD) along the banks of the rivers Clyde and Forth.
	www.tccweb.org /penncoal.htm (21487 words)

	History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia: Introduction
		Understanding the history of coal mining is an important requirement for understanding the communities and those that live in them.
		They mined the coal out of necessity, in order to provide heat for their family and comrades during the cold winter months.
		This type of mining occurred mostly in locations where the coal seams were exposed in the cliffs of harbors, rivers and the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.mininghistory.ns.ca /intro.htm (538 words)

	HISTORY
		The Fraterville Mine Disaster remains the seventh-worst in the history of mining in the United States and the worst in the South.
		The Cross Mountain Mine Disaster was the thirty-sixth worst in the history of mining in the United States.
		Impurities removed from coal mined from the area after 1977 were disposed in the Beech Grove Slurry Impoundment, in accordance with stringent SMCRA standards, until mining operations ceased in 1997.
	www.coalcreekaml.com /history.htm (1693 words)

	Coal mining, history of - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
		Coal remains the cheapest energy source by a factor of 50% and even in many economies (such as the U.S.) it is the primary fuel used in electricity generation.
		Coal produces over 80% of China's energy; 2.3 billion metric tons of coal were mined in 2007.
		The energy policy of the United Kingdom acknowledges expanded use of coal conflicts with its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and yet admits that, with natural gas and oil reserves diminishing in the North Sea fields, conversion of coal to oil or simple combustion of coal may see expansion in the future.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Coal_Mining:_History (3999 words)

	ABC News: Coal Mining Steeped in History
		Conditions in the mines in the early 20th century led to the rise of one of the most famous and powerful labor leaders in America -- John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers union from 1920 to 1960.
		Coal mining attracts workers because the pay is good -- around $50,000 a year, sometimes up to $80,000 a year with what a United Mine Workers spokesman called "reasonable overtime." It creates opportunity in small rural communities where there isn't a lot.
		Profits in coal mining have risen steadily since 2000, and in 2004 were in the range of 15 percent to 20 percent.
	abcnews.go.com /Primetime/Mine/story?id=1475697 (1021 words)

	District 1 History
		The mining is on outcrops (surface exposed anthracite coal), along the banks of the Susquehanna River.
		Although production of coal was in constant decline in the area since its peak in 1917, this disaster is referred to as the event which ended deep coal mining in the northern anthracite fields of Pennsylvania.
		An inclined connection driven in coal or rock from the gangway to the return or monkey airway for the purpose of travel, ventilation and coal loading.
	www.msha.gov /District/Dist_01/History/history.htm (857 words)

	History of Coal Mining in, Utah
		The history of coal mining in Utah is one of outside economic domination which has created a distinctive ethnic mix in the central southeastern area of predominantly Mormon Utah.
		This helped create demand for coal that was emphasized when the 1854 territorial legislature offered a cash prize (apparently never collected) for the first usable coal deposits found within forty miles of Salt Lake City.
		From the 1850s through the 1870s several coal prospects opened: one in the southwestern corner of the state, others in centrally located Sanpete County, and one at Coalville, Summit County, forty miles from Salt Lake City.
	www.onlineutah.com /miningcoal.shtml (1093 words)

	WVGES Geology: History of West Virginia Coal Industry
		By 1836, the western Virginia coal fields had received so much attention that Virginia's foremost geologist, Professor William B. Rogers, was sent to visit the mines and analyze the coal in eight counties.
		Large-scale surface mining did not start until 1914, but with the development of huge shovels and draglines, the overburden can now be removed more easily and in recent years this method has become a major method of mining coal in West Virginia.
		Since most of the mines were located too far from established towns, the coal companies built their own towns and provided inexpensive homes, a company store, a church, and often recreation facilities for the miners and their families.
	www.wvgs.wvnet.edu /www/geology/geoldvco.htm (1268 words)

	The History of Mining in Cape Breton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coal mining has been a major factor in the history and development of the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia since the early 1700s.
		Many of the settlers of the area were hardy coal miners from other countries who would eventually help to unify the Cape Breton region through unionization, another result of the coal industry.
		The coal industry was frequently at the heart of disputes that took place between the people and the government and was often the impetus behind workers' rights movements.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /coal/minegrap.html (112 words)

	Coal Mining in India
		Unscientific mining practices adopted by some of them and poor working conditions of labour in some of the private coal mines became matters of concern for the Government.
		The nationalisation was done in two phases, the first with the coking coal mines in 1971-72 and then with the non-coking coal mines in 1973.
		This was followed by the nationalisation of all these mines on 1.5.1973 with the enactment of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973 which now is the piece of Central legislation determining the eligibility of coal mining in India.
	coal.nic.in /abtcoal.htm (514 words)

	A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado
		In Colorado it is contiguous with the Walsenburg coal field to the north in Huerfano County.
		The Trinidad coal field is located in the western half of Las Animas County bounded on the east by the beginning of the eastern high plains and on the west by the sharply upturned strata of the synclinal basin.
		The first mining of coal is said to have been from a seam near what later became the Starkville mine, a few miles south of Trinidad.
	sangres.com /history/coalhistory01.htm (1008 words)

	Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre
		Survival in Paradise: A Century of Coal Mining in the Bow Valley
		Written by Walter J. Riva, former mine engineer and manager at the Canmore Mines Ltd. and member of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame; with editing and layout design by Rob Alexander, Survival in Paradise: A Century of Coal Mining in the Bow Valley is the first publication by the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre.
		History Never Sleeps Survival in Paradise: A Century of Coal Mining in the Bow Valley was made possible by private donations from Richard V. Green, Don Riva and Walter Riva, a corporate donation by Lafarge Canada Inc. Exshaw Plant and a municipal grant from the Town of Canmore.
	www.cmags.org (1470 words)

	Durham Mining Museum - Mining History
		A brief history and description of the opencast coal mining industry as published by British Coal Opencast in 1991.
		Once again there is a large section of the history of coal mining in the county, however, it concentrates on the nineteenth century, but the major part covers the practical and the social side of mining during the nineteenth century.
		The history is nor complete without coverage of the twentieth century and the eventual demise of the industry - this topic is too large and complex to cover here and is best left to the many books on the subject.
	www.dmm.org.uk /history/index.htm (305 words)

	History of Coal Mining in Easton
		The local coal industry began to shrink as good quality coal from S Wales and the Midlands proved too strong a competition.
		The harness was attached to the tub by a chain which went between the boys legs and attached to a hook on the tub.
		Coal arrives at the surface in two laden trams (each containing 9cwt of coal) which are met by two men who unload and quickly replace with two empty trams.
	www.cems.uwe.ac.uk /~rstephen/livingeaston/local_history/coalmining/coalmining.html (1864 words)

	GeoKansas--Geotopics--Coal Mining in Kansas
		Coal mining in Kansas began in the 1850's, with shallow mines dug near Fort Leavenworth in Leavenworth County.
		In the 1930's, strip mining (which began in Kansas in 1876) once again became the preferred method of mining coal in southeastern Kansas (though underground mining continued until 1960 in southeast Kansas and until 1964 in Osage County).
		Coal beds too thin to be mined underground were stripped by power shovels, some of which dug to depths of almost 100 feet.
	www.kgs.ku.edu /Extension/cherokee/coalmining.html (798 words)

	Peter Claughton's Mining History Information Pages
		Silver Mining and the English Crown: direct management and leasing of the Devon mines - a paper orginally presented to the International Mining History Congress held at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1998 and amended in the light of subsequent research.
		Mining Landscapes; A response to the Ceredigion Unitary Development Plan on behalf of the Welsh Mines Society.
		Mines People and Industries of Scotland, 11-13 July 2008 - the NAMHO Conference to be held at the Scottish Mining Museum, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, near Edinburgh.
	www.people.ex.ac.uk /pfclaugh/mhinf/contents.htm (1025 words)

	Puget Sound Journal: Mining family history for coal
		Kombol, the manager of the Palmer Coking Coal Co., traces his lineage back to Welsh coal miners by the name of Morris who came to this country in the 1880s to work the mines in the region, from Black Diamond to Newcastle, Ravensdale and Wilkeson.
		It wasn't hard for him to research his piece: His family's history is preserved in a wealth of photos, records and newspaper clippings at the company's headquarters.
		He has especially loved digging into the history of mining in the state and his family's connection to it, fitting for a man who worked his way through college picking rocks from coal at a coal preparation plant.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/128095_cporterfield25.html (969 words)

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