history of coal mining, Tag

In the last post on this subject, I wrote about how miners were able to remove almost all the coal from a section, either by leaving small remnant pillars or building packs to hold the roof in place, while that coal was removed...

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This is the next in the series of Tech Talks on Coal Mining, and I’m now going to move more into more recent mining, rather than dealing with the historic background of the recent past...

This is a continuation of a series of tech talks, most recently relating to coal, that have been offered on Sundays. Here, Heading Out continues to tell us about the history of coal mining. Some of these techniques are still...

One of the problems that has consistently plagued underground coal mining lies in the height of the coal seam that is being mined. This was the portal (i.e. entrance) to a coal mine that we once ran a research project in,...

On the 18th April, Ugo Bardi posted a piece on The Oil Drum discussing some of the dark sides of coal mining. In particular he started with one of his favorite paintings 'The Riverbank' by Telemaco Signorini. He ties this...