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BBC - Nation on Film - The History of Coal Mining in the ...

2003-9-16  coal mining in the north east Coal was once the lifeblood of industry and a key part of life in the North East of England. Coal was king, and it fuelled industries like steel and heavy engineering.

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BBC - Nation on Film - Coal Mining

2021-5-11  Take a journey into the North East's coal mines from the depression-torn 1930s to the modern pit of the 1960s and 70s. Meet the miners who grafted at the coalface. Be a living witness and record your recollections. We want to hear your memories and reminiscences about the topics featured on the Nation on Film web site.

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BBC - Nation on Film - Tin Mining - The Rise and Fall of ...

2003-9-16  Renewed competition from Malaya and Bolivia was the final nail in the coffin and between 1871 and 1881 it is estimated that a third of Cornwall's mining population emigrated in the face of ...

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BBC Four - Nation on Film

2021-11-17  The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Documentary series exploring the use of film as an eyewitness to history

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BBC - Wales - History - Themes - 20th century coal mining

2010-11-25  No less than 57m tons of coal was produced in 1913, by 232,000 men working in 620 mines. The largest number of men ever to work in the Welsh coal mines was 271,000 in 1920. Post war, there was a ...

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Hollywood film could tell story of 1875 Lan colliery ... - BBC

2019-12-7  Hollywood film could tell story of 1875 Lan colliery disaster. A schoolboy's project that inspired his grandmother to write a book on a mining disaster is

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BBC Inside Out - Craghead revisited

2003-9-15  The history of the County Durham Village dates back over 200 years. Craghead began mining in 1869 and was of major importance to the development of the small village.

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Former mining communities 'still scarred by past' - BBC

2019-10-16  Former mining communities 'still scarred by past'. Former mining towns and villages across the UK have still not recovered a generation on from pit closures, a new report claims. It found issues ...

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Mining Documentaries – Republic of Mining

2019-7-16  The film, by Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman, traces the unpleasant history of coal in West Virginia, including obvious black marks like the 2010 explosion at a Massey Energy Company mine, in which 29 people died, and less obvious ones like vanishing pension and

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BBC - Nation on Film - Coal Mining

2021-5-11  Take a journey into the North East's coal mines from the depression-torn 1930s to the modern pit of the 1960s and 70s. Meet the miners who grafted at the coalface. Be a living witness and record your recollections. We want to hear your memories and reminiscences about the topics featured on the Nation on Film web site.

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BBC - Wales - History - Themes - 20th century coal mining

2010-11-25  No less than 57m tons of coal was produced in 1913, by 232,000 men working in 620 mines. The largest number of men ever to work in the Welsh coal mines was 271,000 in 1920. Post war, there was a ...

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Coal on Film - Greatest global cinema on BFI Player

2021-11-12  Coal on Film. Coalmining is visually unique, dramatic, elemental, iconic - and a huge filmmaking challenge. Small wonder that it's the industry with the richest and deepest screen history of all. Filming underground, in dark and cramped conditions, is

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Former mining communities 'still scarred by past' - BBC

2019-10-16  Former mining communities 'still scarred by past'. Former mining towns and villages across the UK have still not recovered a generation on from pit closures, a new report claims. It found issues ...

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Mining Documentaries – Republic of Mining

2019-7-16  World premiere March 6 at 9 pm ET on TVO and tvo.org. February 27, 2019 (Toronto, ON) － From Alibi Entertainment and producer, director, and writer Catie Lamer, TVO Original Northern Gold shines a light on Canada’s complex history of mining, its current effects on the economy, politics and environment, and the shadowy business of high-grading (the theft and smuggling of millions of dollars ...

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Miners march to mark closure of Maltby Colliery - BBC News

2013-4-6  The pit produced coal for more than 100 years. When Hargreaves Services bought the colliery from UK Coal in 2007, mining was expected to continue until 2015.

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Black Miners Museum News Events - Black Coal Miners

The Lab is a strand of the Digital Heritage Lab by The Arts Marketing Association and partners and is providing digital mentoring support to the following 60 UK-based small to medium sized heritage organisations. The aim of The Lab is to help these 60 heritage organisations develop their individual digital capabilities and capacity, and is tailored to each organisation’s needs.

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About After Coal

About. After Coal is an international community engagement project that explores strategies coalfield communities have used to survive de-industrialization. Coalfield residents share their stories via a documentary film, public forums, and a book.

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The U.K. considers its 1st new coal mine in decades even ...

2021-11-4  The mining company, West Cumbria Mining, insists the new mine won't increase global CO2 emissions. The company argues that the mine — which would produce coking coal to make steel — is so close to European markets and will be so cost effective, it will drive competing American mines out of business and actually reduce U.S. coal production.

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New mineral mining boom could create 80,000 jobs in

More than 80,000 jobs could be created in SA in a new mineral mining boom, with global. demand for copper and other precious commodities projected to skyrocket over coming. years. Research ...

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Coal on Film - Greatest global cinema on BFI Player

2021-11-12  Coal on Film. Coalmining is visually unique, dramatic, elemental, iconic - and a huge filmmaking challenge. Small wonder that it's the industry with the richest and deepest screen history of all. Filming underground, in dark and cramped conditions, is

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When Coal Was King BFI

2020-10-10  When Coal Was King will be broadcast as part of the BBC Four Timeshift series on Monday 4 November at 9pm. Eccentric, moving, funny, powerful, tragic – the films encompass many sensations and styles, and the forthcoming television

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Home Black Coal Miners - Home Black Miners Museum

Black Miners Museum Project, led by Nottingham News Centre CIC, aims to grow lasting partnerships with existing mining museums and industrial-related museums across the UK, by enriching and enhancing current visitor exhibitions and displays through the integration of recently unearthed narratives, memories and creative representations of former coal miners of black/ African-Caribbean heritage ...

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About Us - National Coal Mining Museum

Museum History. The National Coal Mining Museum for England is located at Caphouse Colliery, on the western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield, where mining has been carried out for centuries. A plan dated 1791 showing workings from 1789 to 1795, includes a shaft on the Caphouse site. It is probably the oldest coal-mine shaft still in everyday use ...

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About After Coal

About. After Coal is an international community engagement project that explores strategies coalfield communities have used to survive de-industrialization. Coalfield residents share their stories via a documentary film, public forums, and a book.

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The History of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People

The coal miner strike, involving tens of thousands of miners, received prominent national coverage and was not subject to the national security issues that cloaked uranium mining. The coal strike led to the passage of both regulations on conditions in the mines and a

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Coal Mines, collieries, drifts, welsh mining disasters

2020-10-11  Coal production and profits for the mine owners and the shareholders came first. After-all lives were very cheap, if a miner were killed there would be plenty willing to take his place. This then was the attitude of the "ruling classes" and it was repeated throughout the

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National Miners Memorial - Chase Arts for Public Spaces

A national, permanent memorial to commemorate the men, women and children who worked in the mining industry and served or died for their country is to be installed at a cost of £100,000. And it is all thanks to a group of volunteers based in towns within the former Cannock Chase Coalfield.

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Coal Miners - National Coal Heritage Area

2 天前  Coal Miners. Page Content. Between 1880 and 1920, southern West Virginia’s population grew from 93,000 to 446,000, due almost entirely to the coal industry. The region’s first coal miners primarily were African Americans, both enslaved and free. By 1850, approximately half of Kanawha County’s slaves worked in the salt industry—many ...

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Coal and Native American tribal lands - Global Energy

2021-11-22  Coal interests on Native American lands. The Four Corners Steam Plant, one of the largest coal-fired generating stations in the United States, is located on Navajo land in Fruitland, New Mexico.The plant’s five units generate 2,040 megawatts of electricity and are operated by Arizona Public Service Company, which serves about 300,000 homes in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas.

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