| In the west are the Ruhr coalfields, while in the east there are large lignite deposits. |
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| People here know there is a lot of ill health in the coalfields area, but the extent of it shocked everyone. |
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| The coalfields have given way to unemployment queues, night watchmen's sheds and minimum wage component assembly jobs. |
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| During the last three centuries coal from the Yorkshire coalfields has been one of the world's major sources of power. |
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| A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully. |
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| Many of the borders separated factories from their raw materials, farms from their markets, ironworks from coalfields. |
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| The union's refusal to defend jobs has left mining communities throughout the Appalachian coalfields in a depression-like state. |
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| The trust will take over responsibility for projects under way to transform former coalfields to woodland and open areas, including 12 across the Yorkshire region. |
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| It strikes back at the job losses experienced in the area's coalfields. |
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| And when Bush misled our nation into war, the creaky old son of the coalfields gave his greatest roar. |
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| In the coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains, broomsedge dominates abandoned surface strip-mined areas, even after significant periods of time have elapsed since mining. |
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| Yet by 1906, industrial dissension and political militancy had begun to undermine Liberal consensus in the southern coalfields. |
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| The first modern canal in England was Sankey Brook, opened in 1757 to connect Liverpool's ports to the St Helens coalfields. |
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| Although production fell after the 1913 high, demand was still strong enough to push the coalfields to their limit. |
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| With the outbreak of World War II the coalfields of Glamorgan saw a sharp rise in trade and employment. |
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| They occur in two major troughs, which extend under the English Channel where similar coalfields are located. |
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| By 1870, there were 14,000 beehive ovens in operation on the West Durham coalfields, capable of producing 4,000,000 tons of coke. |
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| In the late 19th century, the coalfields of western Pennsylvania provided a rich source of raw material for coking. |
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| The location of the coalfields helped to make the prosperity of Lancashire, of Yorkshire, and of South Wales. |
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| Following Japanese industrialization additional coalfields were discovered northern Japan. |
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| The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was one of the most important British coalfields. |
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| As it moves to diversify its business, HWANGE Colliery Company Limited has invited bids for methane gas exploration at its Lubimbi coalfields. |
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| Despite their disadvantages, Newcomen engines were reliable and easy to maintain and continued to be used in the coalfields until the early decades of the 19th century. |
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| Wallonia had rich coalfields over much of its area, and the highly folded nature of coal seams meant that it could be found at relatively shallow depths. |
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| Many coalfields were developed in the industrial revolution. |
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| From the northern coalfields and ironworks a string of world class boxers were produced, which was later matched by notable fighters from Cardiff. |
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| The line was designed to link the coalfields of Glamorgan to London, and was also part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's vision of a transport link from London to New York. |
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| For the first time the Rhondda Valley was connected by a major transportation route to the rest of Wales and the exploitation of its coalfields could begin. |
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| Despite support in the coalfields, including many miners' wives in Women Against Pit Closures, the strike was eventually lost owing to a union split, among other reasons. |
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| The Monkland Canal was conceived in 1769 by tobacco merchants and other entrepreneurs as a way of bringing cheap coal into Glasgow from the coalfields of the Monklands area. |
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| Throughout the entire county there are vast and important coalfields. |
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