coal mining
Americannoun
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Jackson invoked the struggle for workers’ rights, the coal mining strikes, what it meant to go without.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
Dumfries House sits alongside areas of high social deprivation in a part of Scotland still scarred by the collapse of the coal mining industry.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Brown and black coal mining employed about 100,000 people in the 1980s, when the former Czechoslovakia was ruled by Moscow-steered communists promoting heavy industry.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
In 2024, more than 75% of newly approved coal power capacity in China was financed by coal mining companies or energy groups with coal mining operations.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
Only coal mining was more important in Coalwood than high-school football.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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