Coal mining was often a family affair with different ... The reliance on huge amounts of coal as a fuel during the Industrial Revolution has had a serious effect on the environment.

“This was the industrial revolution, right here ... the United Kingdom is barely mining coal today. Plans to open the country ...

The industrial revolution was underway and it depended ... Tutty starting working in the Glace Bay coal mines when he was 14 years old. His father had drowned and Tutty became the first in five ...

U.S. coal mining employed 53,000 people last year ... central to the state’s economy in the 19th century when the Industrial Revolution sent demand soaring. Eventually, all but two of the ...

As the clock struck midnight on Monday, UK time, the birthplace of the industrial revolution marked ... diminished the importance of coal when she shut mines to crush the power of mining unions ...

"It's a really remarkable day, because Britain, after all, built her whole strength on coal, that is the industrial revolution," said ... when many of the UK's coal mines were closed and thousands ...

He later worked for 23 years in the coal mines of the island ... Heritage status as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution. The island mining town is now in ruins, displaying only traces ...