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unusual facts about coal mines



Alexander J. Foley

At a young age he decided that he was not going to work the coal mines as his father had done.

Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway

The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway connected the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley to the Swansea Bay ports.

Roche Percee, Saskatchewan

The town began being served by the SOO Line in 1893, permitting the coal mines in the region to become operational.


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Apedale Hall

Apedale Hall is a manor house near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, it was rebuilt in 1826 by the Heathcote family in the Elizabethan style by British Industrialist Richard Edensor Heathcote, (1780 - Genoa, Italy, 1850), but was demolished in 1934, due to subsidence from the coal mines underneath.

Bearcreek, Montana

At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3,000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.

Birley Collieries

The Birley Collieries were a group of coal mines set in the Shire Brook Valley in south east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

Black Country Living Museum

In 1712, Thomas Newcomen built the world's first successful steam engine which was used for pumping water from coal mines on Lord Dudley's estates.

Breckinridge County, Kentucky

During the nineteenth century, the Victoria Coal mines, named in honor of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, were the first to produce coal oil, and Cloverport exported coal oil to Great Britain, where it was used to light Buckingham Palace.

Castel del Monte, Abruzzo

This population decline accelerated in the second half of the 20th century when significant numbers of Castel del Monte's residents migrated to Wallonia, many to work in its coal mines.

Chauncy Townsend

He developed extensive interests in coal mines in the Swansea area of Wales, as well as mining, smelting and refining copper and lead.

Cloverport, Kentucky

In the nineteenth century, the Victoria Coal Mines (named in honor of the British queen) produced coal oil from cannel coal that was used to light Buckingham Palace.

CLR 1 to 8

The branch line from Ballinamore to Arigna followed in May 1888 and in 1920 extended to the coal mines beyond the village.

Coal in China

Major gas explosions in coal mines remain a problem, though the number of accidents and deaths have gradually declined year by year, the chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, Luo Lin, told a national conference in September.

Cooper Music Store

After several years living in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, and working in the coal mines, Cooper and his family – which now included two sons, John and Will – moved to Buffalo in 1892.

Crusher

Seeing ahead clearly, Darby, sold off his brass business interests and relocated to Coalbrookdale with its plentiful coal mines, water power and nearby ore supplies.

Cuggiono

Many Italians, especially from Cuggiono, emigrated to Southern Illinois to work in the coal mines with hopes of the American Dream in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

De Wendel family

Moreover, both plants were connected by rail to the company's coal mines and coke furnaces at Stiring-Wendel and at Seraing in Belgium thereby alleviating a chronic shortage of coal and coke.

Dhanbad

Tata Steel, BCCL, ECL and IISCO (Indian Iron And Steel Company) are some of the companies having coal mines in the district.

Edward Gierek

After his military service in Stryj, Galicia, Gierek went to Belgium in 1934, where he joined the Communist Party of Belgium while working in the coal mines of Waterschei.

Ezra Cline

The three cousins worked in the coal mines during the week and played music on the weekends until 1938, when they left Mingo County, WV for Bluefield, WV to perform on WHIS radio.

Five Pits Trail

Derbyshire County Council created the Five Pits Trail in 1989, following the route of the former Great Central Railway which served the five main coal mines of Grassmoor, Williamthorpe, Holmewood, Pilsley and Tibshelf.

Frank Hutchison

Some years after his recording career had ended and after he left the Logan County coal mines, Hutchison and his wife operated a store in Lake, West Virginia, where he also served as postmaster.

Frank, Alberta

In 1901, American entrepreneurs Sam Gebo and Henry Frank developed the first of many coal mines in the Crowsnest Pass, in the base of Turtle Mountain.

George Lord

He was also a director of numerous colonial companies including, coal mines, meat works and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney.

Gilcrux

The increase in population is explained by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, the increase in residents was due to the extensions of coal mines in the area.

GMD GF6C

The line served the Quintette and Bull-Moose coal mines, and hauled coal from said mines to an interchange with CN, where diesel power took over to haul the coal to Prince Rupert where it was loaded onto deep-sea coal carrier ships.

Gubbarudda

Gubbarudda is a townland in Ireland three miles north-west from Arigna village (known nationally for its once active coal mines.) Gubbarudda is a very rural area also.

Hvalba

The memorial is made of stone, the stone work was made by Lars and Helmut Larsen from Tórshavn, it was raised in 1963 in memory of people from Hvalba who lost their life at sea or by other accidents, i.e. by accidents in the coal mines or by falling down from the island Lítla Dímun or from one of the mountains which surround the village.

Jambyn Batmönkh

Batmönkh's reign contributed to the creation of major energy (the construction of Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet power stations, and the connection of the Central high-power electric grid with the Soviet Union's Siberian Grid) and mining (the beginning of the operations of Erdenet and Baganuur coal mines, and Bor-Ondor gypsum mine) infrastructure, together with, various other light production and food processing factories.

Langerwehe station

Since the line originally served particularly freight traffic between the Belgian city of Antwerp and the Rhineland, a freight shed was also established, which was partly used for the temporary storage of wood for the nearby coal mines of the Aachen district.

Macclesfield Canal

By 1838, the canal company was looking to expansion, and sought to build a branch from Buglawton to Biddulph, to serve the coal mines.

Majri

Apart from this, the village is surrounded by Sirna River and many of open cast and underground coal mines of Wardha Valley Coalfield.

Michael F. Conry

Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Conry was employed in the coal mines until crippled for life.

Mikhail Plisetski

In 1932-1936 — headed the Soviet coal mines at Barentsburg on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen where he managed the coal concessions (trust "Arctic-carbon").

Moweaqua, Illinois

The tragic explosion, together with the election in the previous month (November 1932) of the pro-labor Seventy-Third Congress, led to the pasasge of mine safety legislation and the phaseout of open-flame carbide miner's lanterns in United States coal mines.

MS Aramis

Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.

Rising Tide UK

Ffos-y-Fran is one of the largest open pit coal mines in Europe, and operates very close to the houses of the local community in Merthyr Tydfil, which have been campaigning against it.

Ronnie Starling

Born in Pelaw, Tyne and Wear, Ronnie Starling represented Durham County schools as a youth and began working in the coal mines in the north-east at the age of 14, firstly at Usworth colliery and then Washington Colliery.

Sherritt International

The company has coal mines in Alberta and Saskatchewan and nickel laterite mines in Moa, Cuba and near Moramanga, Madagascar.

Stary Zdrój

It has factories for glass, porcelain (Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych S.A.), machinery, cotton-spinning, iron-foundries and used to have coal-mines.

Thomas Sutton

He also obtained the lease of the manors of Whickham and Gateshead, close to Newcastle, in 1578, and so gained much of his early wealth from the coal mines in the area and from the sale of this lease five years later.

U.S. Route 48

There are over 50 species of plants and animals that are protected under the Endangered Species Act and more than 150 native trout streams, thousands of acres of wetlands and high mountain bogs, areas of karst terrain, abandoned coal mines and numerous recreational facilities within the Corridor H study area.

Updown Court

By the time he entered public consciousness with Updown Court, Allen-Vercoe owned 42 private companies in the UK, flew a Jet Ranger helicopter, had assets including forests in Russia, coal mines in Ukraine, land in Latvia and Lithuania and estimated that his net worth was 'safely in excess of £50 million', despite not appearing on any of the many Rich Lists published each year.