Miner definition, a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores. See more.

 · Performed and written by Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb). Loretta, the coal miner's daughter, is famously from "Butcher Holler", a section of Van Lear, a mi...

Donald Trump has promised repeatedly throughout his campaign to save the U.S. coal industry after years of bankruptcies and dwindling job prospects for coal miners.

 · We've heard a lot of talk about coal miners in the last year, but what are the real issues surrounding coal? John Oliver and a giant squirrel look into it. C...

The Top 10 Coal Producers Worldwide. Far from being in decline, coal has been growing rapidly as one of the world's most used resources, and these countries are leading the way. ... The country has about 100 private coal miners carrying out open pit operations, and this method of mining accounts for 74% of Australia's total coal production. 3 ...

A GREAT DEBT How America Failed My Family of Coal Miners. Former fifth-generation coal miner Nick Mullins, who is featured in the documentary Blood on the Mountain, says the United States and its ...

Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, is the remarkable true story of country music star Loretta Lynn and her triumph in making a name for herself.

WHO IS A COAL - MINER ? ... But for the benefit of the entirely uninitiated we will first briefly sketch the lay of the coal-mine and the process of mining. No two mines look alike, but the following description fits them all in a general way. The Coal-Mine.

About 16,000 retired coal miners will lose health care benefits if Congress doesn't replenish funds that were supposed to keep them insured.

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 · A coal miner is the person who removes coal from the earth so that it can be used as an energy source to make electricity. This is a position that can be very dangerous; a coal miner …

 · The direction by Michael Apted is adequate and so is the Oscar-nominated adaptation, but the excellent work by the three leads makes "Coal Miner's Daughter" one of the finest pictures of the early-1980s. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Clemmy Allen, 63, a veteran miner and head of the United Mineworkers of America's Career Centers, said miners are taking a big risk in holding out for a coal recovery. He's placing his hopes ...

Coal's comeback in western Pennsylvania. ... That's where John and Betty Rhodes have been running the Coal Miner's Cafe since 1989. The walls are decorated with pickaxes and mining helmets, not to ...

Jimbo Fisher's deceased father, John James "Big Jim" Sr., who was a coal miner and farmer. This is a photo that Jimbo has in his office. Daniels says neighborhood kids flocked to the Fisher ...

The Trump Administration Is Friendly to Coal Companies—but Not to Coal-Mining Communities ... to improve taxpayer returns from federal coal as well as take into account the environmental costs ...

Address of the President to the Coal Miners MY FELLOW AMERICANS: I am speaking tonight to the American people, and in particular to those of our citizens who are coal miners.

Mountaintop removal coal mining, often described as "strip mining on steroids," is an extremely destructive form of mining that is devastating Appalachia. In the past few decades, over 2,000 miles of streams and headwaters that provide drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed. An area the size of Delaware has been flattened.

In Coal Miner's Daughter, the autobiography that became an Academy Award-winning film, Lynn told a different story — that she was married at 13 and was a mother of four by 18. Most books and ...

Today in Energy. Glossary › FAQS › ... (RTEA)—the second-largest producer in 2008—reshuffled some production by divesting itself of Jacobs Ranch mine in Wyoming, selling it to Arch Coal. This move allowed Arch Coal, an eastern and western coal producer, to solidify its second-place position in 2009, although it had been in the top four ...

Coal Miner's Daughter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on March 7, 1980, under the MCA Nashville label. It included music by Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, and Sissy Spacek except for the "End Credits Medley" and material by other artists which were not under contract to MCA.

Deep Coal Mining Community Health Risks The health outcomes associated with living in a deep coal mining community are various. Everything from increased rates of lung cancer, respiratory disease, and low birth weight can be linked to communities that are located near mining facilities.

'A hillbilly is someone who is hardworking, thoughtful, and loyal,' says Garland Couch, a miner turned coder. His employer's ambition? To turn coal country into 'Silicon Holler'

Coal mining is only a temporary use of land, so it is vital that rehabilitation of land takes place once mining operations have stopped. In best practice a detailed rehabilitation or reclamation plan is designed and approved for each coal mine, covering the period from the start of operations until well after mining …

Home » Exhibitions » Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. A Miner's Story. Article scanned from The Independent, 1902. This article comes from an American miner, resident all his life in the mining district of Pennsylvania. He has worked in the mines from his boyhood.

 ·  · With some of the country's largest coal companies in bankruptcy, about 120,000 retired miners and their families in West Virginia …

 · Coal miner Jaden Fredrickson, 26, of Cheat Lake, W.Va., waits prior to the arrival of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt who visited the Harvey Mine …

 · Donald J. Trump made coal a centerpiece of his campaign, holding rousing rallies with miners in hard hats, who he said had been neglected under eight years of …

Mining Lights and Hats. The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. ... Open flames could ignite the inflammable gas especially prevalent in coal mines and mining explosions with hundreds of casualties was a common occurrence in the late 19 th and early 20 th century ...

Coal mining is a good thing even though environmentalist who don't even live in this area will tell you that it is the most awful thing ever when if we didn't have it …

Arch Coal's Black Thunder coal mine in Wyoming, US, is the fifth largest coal mine in the world. Image courtesy of Max Phillips (Jeremy Buckingham MLC). Peak Downs coal mine in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, Australia, is the sixth biggest coal mine in the world.

We've recently heard about Kathy Mattea's album Coal but, there is a bigger, better and more historical look at coal mining -- the Lonesome Records and Publishing Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields.

Clothes and personal belongings of coal miners are locked and hoisted to the ceiling of the locker room at one of the areas last operating coal mines. Philip Scott Andrews Vines cover a coal ...

The Epic Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Coal Baron ... and as the number of coal miners in the state—union or not—plummets, West Virginia's remaining coal barons have managed to ...

6. WHO IS WHO IN THE COAL-MINING INDUSTRY ? How Did the "Operators" Get the Coal Lands? I F WE were to get permission to look over the titles to the coal fields and coal-mines, the present owners and operators would, no doubt, be able in every single instance to show legal papers attesting to their lawful ownership. But these legal papers would in most cases give little idea of who the persons ...

 · Mountaintop removal mining (MTR) is a form of surface mining increasingly being used to replace underground mining to extract coal from the Appalachian Mountain regions of eastern Kentucky, southwest West Virgina, southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee. The process involves using explosives to remove up to 1,000 vertical feet of ...

The Future of Coal Country ... Her fight against coal mining often puts her in opposition not only to energy companies but also to miners concerned about their jobs, and he fears that someone will ...

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production.