British Coal information

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

ed. A History of British industrial relations, 1875-1914 (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp 187–208. Benson, John. British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth...

Bituminous coal, or black coal, is a type of coal containing a tar-like substance called bitumen or asphalt. Its coloration can be black or sometimes dark...

ed. A History of British industrial relations, 1875–1914 (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp 187–208. Benson, John. British Coal-Miners in the Nineteenth...

Coal forests were the vast swathes of swamps and riparian forests that covered much of the land on Earth's tropical regions during the late Carboniferous...

Left' of British politics can trace its origins to coal-mining areas, with the main trade union being the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, founded...

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 is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of...

Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system. It is produced when coal is heated strongly...

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

The coal tit or cole tit, (Periparus ater), is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in forests...

Coal liquefaction is a process of converting coal into liquid hydrocarbons: liquid fuels and petrochemicals. This process is often known as "Coal to X"...

Coal tar is a thick dark liquid which is a by-product of the production of coke and coal gas from coal. It is a type of creosote. It has both medical and...

This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2021. "International - U.S. Energy...

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...

British Coal Corp v R is a decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in which the authority of the Canadian Parliament to prohibit appeals...

Selling, carrying, bringing, or taking coal(s) to Newcastle is an idiom of British origin describing a pointless action. It refers to the fact that, historically...

as coal-mine dust lung disease, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term inhalation and deposition of coal dust...

are black coal, hard coal, stone coal, dark coal, coffee coal, blind coal (in Scotland), Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow coal or craw coal, and black...

National Coal Board. The Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3) changed the name of the National Coal Board to the British Coal Corporation. The Coal Industry...

acquisition of British Coal's core activities. It changed its name to UK Coal in 2001 after the retirement of its founder, having acquired UK Coal plc. At year...

Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa'r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure in...

Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining 777.31 million metric tons (856...

Coal Creek may refer to: Coal Creek, Queensland, a locality in the Somerset Region Coal Creek, Victoria, a town Coal Creek (British Columbia), a creek...

majority of unworked coal in Great Britain, as well as former coal mines, and undertakes a range of functions including: licensing coal mining operations...