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2005 in England

Closure of Ellington Colliery at Ellington, Northumberland, the last remaining operational deep coal mine in North East England, and the last in the UK to extract coal from under the sea.

Albert Goodwin

Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (May 10, 1887 – July 27, 1918) of Treeton, England was a migrant coal miner who found work in the Cumberland mines; arriving on Vancouver Island in late 1910.

Anzin

Anzin was once the centre of important coal mines of the Valenciennes basin belonging to the Anzin Company, the formation of which dates to 1717.

Asa Lansford Foster

Asa Lansford Foster (August 19, 1798 – January 9, 1868) was a Pennsylvanian geologist, merchant, and coal mine owner.

Bergisuchus

Bergisuchus is known from a holotype rostrum from the Messel Pit, first described in 1966, and a mandible from an open-pit coal mine near Halle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Carron Company

Taking iron ore from Bo'ness and water from the Carron, they decided to use the new method pioneered by Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale, using coke from coal mines in the vicinity as fuel rather than the usual charcoal.

Dahlbusch Bomb

The Dahlbusch Bomb was developed in May 1955 at the Zeche Dahlbusch coal mine in Gelsenkirchen in Germany's Ruhr area to rescue three miners.

Daoud Bokhary

He briefly returned home to run a coal mine, but, fearing for his wife's safety during the partition of India, returned to Hong Kong with her and their first son soon after.

Don Chafin

As sheriff of Logan County, Chafin was a fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in return for his violent suppression of the United Mine Workers union.

Gibfield Colliery

Gibfield Colliery was a coal mine which was part of the Fletcher, Burrows and Company's collieries in Atherton, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Ivan Sidorenko

After the war ended, Sidorenko retired from the Red Army, and settled down in Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Ural Mountains, where he worked as the foreman of a coal mine.

Joseph Heco

One of the partners, K.R. Mackenzie, asked Heco to help acquire the rights to the Takashima coal mine.

Pljevlja

The only thermal power plant in Montenegro, which provides 45% of the electric power supply for Montenegro, is situated outside Pljevlja as well as the biggest coal mine with 100% of the coal production in Montenegro.

Raspadskaya mine explosion

The Raspadskaya mine explosion was a mine explosion in the Raspadskaya mine, located near Mezhdurechensk in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, which occurred on 8 May 2010.

Tredegar Iron and Coal Company

Tredegar Iron and Coal Company was a major maker of iron in Tredegar, Wales, which due to its need for coke became a major developer of coal mines and particularly the Sirhowy Valley of South Wales.


see also

2013 Babao Coal Mine explosions

The 2013 Babao Coal Mine explosions occurred in the Babao Coal Mine (八宝煤矿) in Jiangyuan District of the Baishan City, Jilin, China.

2013 Taozigou Coal Mine explosion

The 2013 Taozigou Coal Mine explosion occurred in the Taozigou Coal Mine (桃子沟煤矿) in Hua'an Village (华安村), Fuji Town (福集镇) of the Lu County, Sichuan, China.

Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter

In early 2005 residents of nearby villages were worried about the fate of the smelter when the only remaining local coal mine situated at Ellington, closed.

Andrei Nikolishin

His father, Vasyl Nikolishin, was a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, and was exiled from Ukraine to a Gulag forced labor coal mine in Vorkuta, the largest center of the camps in European Russia, for a period of 25 years.

Arthur de Buyer Coal Mine

The Arthur de Buyer Coal Mine or coal mine #11 was one of the major Ronchamp coal mines, which is in the area of the city Magny-Danigon in the French region of Franche-Comté.

Black Mesa

Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy, the controversy surrounding a Peabody Coal mine in the Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona)

Bryn Hall Colliery

Bryn Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield in Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Centennial, Wyoming

Loggers returned to the area in 1905 to cut timber for a coal mine near Coalmont in Jackson County, Colorado.

Chris Cline

SNL Financial reported in 2008 that Deer Run coal mine in Montgomery County, Illinois, a project of Cline's Hillsboro Energy LLC, would produce up to 8 million tons annually until 2016.

Coal Point, New South Wales

The first coal mine was operated by Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, a missionary to the Awabakal people, local entrepreneur and the first European landholder of 'Punte', the Coal Point to Toronto area.

Coal-water slurry fuel

CWS produced by milling the sludge and/or regular coal near the coal mine near Belovo (Siberia, Russia) was transported through the pipeline to Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), a distance of 262 km.

Commodore Mine

The Commodore mine is an open-pit coal mine located near Brisbane in Australia.

Dęby Szlacheckie Coal Mine

The Dęby Szlacheckie coal mine is a large mine in the north of Poland in Dęby Szlacheckie, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 130 km north-west of the capital, Warsaw.

Dillwynella aulacophora

This marine species was found as a fossil in a coal mine near Mons in Belgium.

Drzewce Coal Mine

The Drzewce coal mine is a large mine in the centre of Poland in Drzewce, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 180 km west of the capital, Warsaw.

Eagle Mine

Eagle Butte Mine, a coal mine north of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States

Emanuel Bunzel

In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine years before by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus Struthiosaurus, the first discovered in the region.

Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve

Lying alongside the River Aire, the 286 hectare site includes a large loch and a number of smaller water bodies; the area has been the scene of industrial and mining operations for 150 years, and all the water bodies are the result of subsidence of former coal-mine workings, up to half a kilometre underground, providing habitats for wildfowl and many other birds.

Godda

Coal is mined extensively across the entire district with Lalmatia Colliery having the reputation for the largest open pit coal mine in Asia.

Gosforth Park

The park was laid out by Charles Brandling (1733–1802), a wealthy coal-mine owner and local politician, to adorn his new mansion, Gosforth House (now Brandling House, the racecourse hospitality and conference centre), built 1755–64.

Hatonuevo

BHP Billiton and its joint venture partners, Anglo American and Glencore, became equal owners of the Cerrejon Zona Norte (CZN) coal mine in Colombia in February 2002, when they acquired International Colombia Resources Corporation (Intercor) from ExxonMobil, which held the mine's remaining 50 per cent ownership and operational interests.

Hurry

Hurrying, a child employed in a coal mine to transport coal

Hydropsychidae

Thus, like a canary in a coal mine, researchers can examine stream hydropsychid populations to assess stream health (see EPT or Index of biological integrity).

John Bevan Baker

He fulfilled his war service from 1944 to 1946 as a Bevin Boy at a coal mine at Newbiggin in Northumberland.

Jóźwin Coal Mine

The Jóźwin coal mine is a large mine in the west of Poland in Jóźwin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw.

Kaczyce, Silesian Voivodeship

The Morcinek coal mine (named after writer Gustaw Morcinek) in the village was closed in 1997 after short activity.

Mmamabula

Mmamabula is a planned coal mine and coal-fired power station to the east of the main road and rail corridor in Botswana between Gaborone and Francistown and south of the Serorome River.

Monmouth Railway

Branches from Broadwell led north to the New Found Out coal mine, and south to the Darkhill Ironworks, where it linked with a Severn and Wye Railway branch from Parkend

Mosty Coal Mine

The Mosty coal mine is a large mine in the centre of Poland in Mosty, Łódź Voivodeship, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw.

New Traditionalists

(All three tracks were restored and overdubbed in 1998 for inclusion in the PC CD-ROM game Interstate '82.) This edition does not include "Working in the Coal Mine."

Palapye

Located here is the Morupule Colliery coal mine, which supplies Morupule Power Station, Botswana's principal domestic source of electricity.

Penal labour

It shares aspects with debt bondage that was common in the 19th century, as, for example, brothel madams or coal mining companies would find ways to keep their workers supposedly in debt to them ("I owe my soul to the company store"), in order to apply coercive pressure to keep young women from leaving the prostitution business or to keep men from leaving their underpaid coal mine work.

Penzberg

In order to follow Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy the local Nazi leaders wanted to blow up the coal mine which was the economic life blood of the town (The End by Ian Kershaw - p344), so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer (the social democratic mayor of Penzberg until the Nazi takeover in 1933) and others deposed the Nazi mayor.

Petros, Tennessee

Some of the town and coal mine scenes for the movie October Sky were filmed there.

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

In 1967 Ochirbat was named Chief Engineer at the Sharyn Gol coal mine in Darkhan-Uul Province before becoming deputy Minister of Mining and Geology in 1972.

Sainte Marie Coal Mine

The Sainte Marie Coal Mine is one of the major Ronchamp coal mines, located in Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, in eastern France.

Samuel Frickleton

He worked alongside four of his brothers in a coal mine in Blackball.

Sevnica–Trebnje Railway

The main reason to build the line was the coal mine in Krmelj.

Stanisław Jaros

To "honor" Joseph Stalin's death, in 1953, Jaros planted a bomb under a transformer at the Joseph Stalin Coal Mine (formerly known as Renard Coal Mine) in Sosnowiec.

Tees Marshalling Yard

The yard lay on the original Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) extension to Port Darlington, developed from 1828 under the instructions of influential Quaker banker, coal mine owner and S&DR shareholder Joseph Pease, who had sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site down river of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes.

Thomas Baylies

Turner was concerned in a coal mine at Thatto Heath near St Helens and persuaded his partners to build a furnace at Sutton (there).

Tomisławice Coal Mine

The Tomisławice coal mine is a large mine in the centre of Poland in Tomisławice, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 167 km west of the capital, Warsaw.

Waleswood Colliery

Waleswood Colliery was a coal mine situated between Swallownest and Wales Bar, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Wilberg

Wilberg Mine, coal mine in Emery County, Utah, approximately 12 miles northwest of Orangeville

Xinjiang raid

According to Rafael Poch, at the time correspondent in China for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, the whole incident was the result of a local altercation between Uyghurs and Chinese authorities, with the privatization of a coal mine as the cause.