• miners living in Sego, Utah bought out the coal mine they worked for?
• India's Mafia Raj, or "mafia regime," first emerged around the state-owned coal mines of Jharkhand?

Facts on topics related to Coal mine

Coal mining

• Frank Allen originally worked as a coal miner before becoming a professional footballer at the age of 24?
• a coal mining spoil heap at Writhlington, England was the site for the discovery of fossilised remains of the world's earliest known Damselfly?
• a geological fault and coal mining caused the spire of St Catharine's Church, Scholes to lean and twist?
• after losing both arms in a coal mining accident, Vladislav Titov wrote several books by holding a pen with his teeth?
• children as young as three were employed to hurry around British coal mines?
• not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
• six striking coal miners, nine of their family members, and one bystander were killed during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911?
• some South Welsh coal miners in the 1800s would raid the homes of strikebreakers dressed as a "herd" of Scotch Cattle?
• the Australian town of Acland, once host to Queensland's oldest and smallest continuously worked coal mine, now has a population of one?
• the British Labour Party politician and trade unionist Richard Kelley opposed allowing coal miners to leave work early if they had finished their day's tasks?

Coal

• coal mining in Nigeria, for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
• replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry?
• the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy?
• the first railway in Germany, the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony?

Mining

• California's Gold Country quartz-mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill?
• Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging, mining, and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
• South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
• Hemerdon Mine in Devon, England is one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin, but has not been mined since World War II?
• Hugh de Largie (pictured), who was banned from working as a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of the Australian Senate?
• Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
• an important tool in surface mining is the drag line excavator?
• the amorphous phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners?
• the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division was originally comprised completely of miners from the Ukrainian Donets Basin?
• the Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland is one of the oldest mines in the world?