coal field
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coal field
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The area includes an abandoned coal field where two underground fires, fueled by coal deposits, have slowly burned over the years.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2023
The meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among other things, it bought a small coal field for the purpose, according to Kennecott, of assuring its own fuel supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, it was Thornton who discovered and first opened the Gallup coal field, and he held it until Victoria ran him out.
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher
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