Mountaintop coal mining is a surface mining practice involving removal of mountaintops to expose coal seams, and disposing of associated mining overburden in adjacent ...
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Take a journey down the North East's coal mines using remarkable archive footage.
Due to its abundance, coal has been mined in various parts of the world throughout history and coal mining continues to be an important economic activity today.
The story of British coal mining told through BBC radio and TV broadcasts from the last 70 years, with a gallery of images from the 1930s.
A short history of coal mining in Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne from Medieval times to the 1990s