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Coal Mining In The 1920's - The Mountain Laurel

Few people visit the mines and have no idea what they are like. Back in the 1940's, I gave a program at the Madison, North Carolina Rotary Club covering how coal was mined around 1920. (The following is a typed transcript of that program.) Last week C.P. telephoned and asked me

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Coal Mining 1920s - 1930s - British Pathé

Compilation of coal mining material from the 1920s and 1930s. VS of men walking to the coal face. Shots of pit ponies. Miners' Lamps of different kinds. Men work the coal with picks and carry the coal away from the seam. MS of men drinking and eating 'snap' during break. Shots of

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Historical Coal Mining in Texas

Three classes of coal have been mined in Texas: bituminous (including cannel coal), subbituminous and lignite. Most of the coal mining done from the 1800s to the 1920s and 30s (when oil started replacing coal as a fuel source in Texas) used underground methods, where vertical shafts or sloped adits (tunnel entrance) provided access to the mine workings.

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Coal Mining The Canadian Encyclopedia

2006-2-6  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many killed by, or exposed to, hazardous dust would have been young boys aged eight to 15, as child labour was common in the coal mining industry until compulsory schooling laws began to stamp out the practice in the 1920s.

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The Cabinet Papers Interwar coal mining

2020-8-17  During the 1920s, coal mining was beset by low demand and foreign competition, and between 1921 and 1925, the government subsidised the industry. The Samuel Commission of 1925 identified problems...

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Coal Mining - Chicago History Museum

2016-10-11  Coal mining in the Braidwood during the twentieth century never approached the peaks it had reached in the 1870s and 1880s, but there was a small revival starting in the 1920s made possible by strip-mining. In the late 1920s, the Northern Illinois Coal Company (NIC) began to employ power shovels and earth-moving equipment to unearth coal by displacing huge volumes of soil and rock.

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The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining eHISTORY

The answer was the ventilating furnace. Quite literally, early coal mines had a furnace at the bottom of a shaft. The furnace created a draft, and the draft ventilated the mine. The ventilating furnace had a separate shaft, often lined with wooden timbers and planks.

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The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot History ...

2017-4-25  The showdown may sound almost cinematic, but the reality of the coal miners’ armed standoffs throughout the early 20th century was much darker and more

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1 IntroductIon to south AfrIcAn coAl mInIng And

2021-1-22  the history of coal mining in south Africa Coal was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Province, and first documented between 1838 and 1859. The first commercial mining took place near Molteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 18701. The discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1870 and gold on the Witwatersrand

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The Pithead Baths: Caphouse National Coal Mining

2020-6-8  First aid provision at coal mines was a must due to the dangerous nature of the job. In just one year during the 1920s, 1297 miners were killed at work, while 212,256 were seriously injured. The Mines Medical Service began in 1943, but a more comprehensive scheme was

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Historical Coal Mining in Texas

Surface strip mining (also known as area, open pit or open cast mining) to extract lignite was used at several mines starting in the 1920s, but was the only means of extracting lignite after 1951. There are six coal provinces in the conterminous United States (the “Lower 48”).

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The Cabinet Papers Interwar coal mining

2020-8-17  During the 1920s, coal mining was beset by low demand and foreign competition, and between 1921 and 1925, the government subsidised the industry. The Samuel Commission of 1925 identified problems of deficient demand and surplus capacity. Believing subsidies rewarded inefficiency, it recommended rationalisation and their withdrawal.

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Kentucky Coal Heritage - Mining Equipment from 1920's

2018-1-5  Mining Coal With A Steam Shovel A stripping operation of the Western Collieries Coal Co., on the former Tradewater Coal Co. property at Ilsley, Hopkins County, Kentucky, showing steam shovel loading coal. In the left foreground the caterpillar tracks show where the coal has been operated.

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Coal-Mining Deaths in 1923 - The 1920s

2013-8-14  The Human Cost of Mining Coal in the U.S. T WICE IN A DECADE have coal-miners of Dawson, New Mexico, been trapt and entombed by mine explosions which snuffed out a total of 383 lives. And in both instances the mines were owned by the same corporation. In ten years, declares the New York Evening Post, "we have killed approximately 24,000 miners."

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The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining eHISTORY

There were two big engineering problems in mining coal underground: A system to drain water from the mine ; A system to ventilate the mine and to provide fresh air to the miners. A special problem in coal mines was the methane (a gas) that sometimes accompanied coal, and which could--and too often did--catch fire and explode.

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BBC - Wales - History - Themes - 20th century coal mining

2010-11-25  The largest number of men ever to work in the Welsh coal mines was 271,000 in 1920. Post war, there was a recession in the coal market, due to a combination of a

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Coal Mining Encyclopedia

2018-5-23  The stagnation of demand in the 1920s made clear the fact that West European coal mining suffered from an excess of capacity, insufficient productivity, and too much expensive coal. With the economic crisis of the 1930s its precarious position grew still worse except in the German Reich.

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BBC - Tyne - History - Coal mining... past and present

2008-8-4  Coal was once the lifeblood of industry and a key part of life in the North East. After the 1980s miners' strike, 156 collieries closed nationwide, some merged... only to be axed as 'uneconomic'.

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Coal Mining - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Coal mining was prevalent in the Franklin County area from the late 1880s to 1950. A metal statue of a coal miner, with lunch bucket and pick, was erected in Altus (Franklin County), and the names of many of the miners are on the adjacent stone columns. Another coal-mining commemorative site is east of the Sebastian County Courthouse in ...

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Coal Mining Encyclopedia of Alabama

Experiencing both boom and bust, the coal-mining industry has affected the lives of thousands of people in northern and central Alabama. The industry changed the face of the stateâ geographically, economically, socially, politically, culturally. Largely obscured today by reclamation projects, pine trees, and kudzu, the mining districts of Alabama are the remnants of an industrial boom that ...

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Historical Coal Mining in Texas

Surface strip mining (also known as area, open pit or open cast mining) to extract lignite was used at several mines starting in the 1920s, but was the only means of extracting lignite after 1951. There are six coal provinces in the conterminous United States (the “Lower 48”).

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Kentucky Coal Heritage - Mining Equipment from 1920's

2018-1-5  Mining Coal With A Steam Shovel A stripping operation of the Western Collieries Coal Co., on the former Tradewater Coal Co. property at Ilsley, Hopkins County, Kentucky, showing steam shovel loading coal. In the left foreground the caterpillar tracks show where the coal has been operated.

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Coal-Mining Deaths in 1923 - The 1920s

2013-8-14  The Human Cost of Mining Coal in the U.S. T WICE IN A DECADE have coal-miners of Dawson, New Mexico, been trapt and entombed by mine explosions which snuffed out a total of 383 lives. And in both instances the mines were owned by the same corporation. In ten years, declares the New York Evening Post, "we have killed approximately 24,000 miners."

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BBC - Wales - History - Themes - 20th century coal mining

2010-11-25  The largest number of men ever to work in the Welsh coal mines was 271,000 in 1920. Post war, there was a recession in the coal market, due to a combination of a

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The Hazards of 19th Century Coal Mining eHISTORY

There were two big engineering problems in mining coal underground: A system to drain water from the mine ; A system to ventilate the mine and to provide fresh air to the miners. A special problem in coal mines was the methane (a gas) that sometimes accompanied coal, and which could--and too often did--catch fire and explode.

Read More
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Coal Mining Encyclopedia

2018-5-23  The stagnation of demand in the 1920s made clear the fact that West European coal mining suffered from an excess of capacity, insufficient productivity, and too much expensive coal. With the economic crisis of the 1930s its precarious position grew still worse except in the German Reich.

Read More
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BBC - Tyne - History - Coal mining... past and present

2008-8-4  Coal was once the lifeblood of industry and a key part of life in the North East. After the 1980s miners' strike, 156 collieries closed nationwide, some merged... only to be axed as 'uneconomic'.

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Coal Mining - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Coal mining was prevalent in the Franklin County area from the late 1880s to 1950. A metal statue of a coal miner, with lunch bucket and pick, was erected in Altus (Franklin County), and the names of many of the miners are on the adjacent stone columns. Another coal-mining commemorative site is east of the Sebastian County Courthouse in ...

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GENUKI: Coal Society - A History of the South Wales Mining ...

2021-5-26  This book is an excellent primer for anyone wishing to gain a basic grounding in the history of South Wales coal mining, the articles (which are not extracted here) are of necessity brief. Because they form a very useful (in context) bibliography in themselves, I have created a list of Sources with descriptions, referenced S.1 etc, (P is a ...

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Coalmining Accidents and Deaths - The Coal Mining History ...

2021-2-8  This is a database of over 164,000 records containing the details of coalmining accidents and deaths in the UK. Some names are shown as Witheld - this is for reasons of Data Protection and relates to all records of people injured since 1950. ...

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