| The union's refusal to defend jobs has left mining communities throughout the Appalachian coalfields in a depression-like state. |
| Many of the borders separated factories from their raw materials, farms from their markets, ironworks from coalfields. |
| The coalfields have given way to unemployment queues, night watchmen's sheds and minimum wage component assembly jobs. |
| The recent working of important coalfields near Durban has increased its value as a port and coaling station. |
| People here know there is a lot of ill health in the coalfields area, but the extent of it shocked everyone. |
| 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. |
