coal field

American  

noun

1. an area containing significant coal deposits.

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Etymology

Origin of coal field

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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

Geologists have already confirmed that it holds great quantities of iron and coal, including perhaps the world's largest coal field, running more than 1,500 miles along the Transantarctic Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

At Eland's Laagte a very promising coal field is being worked, from which great and important results are expected in the future.

From A Winter Tour in South Africa by Young, Frederick