coal mining: Media

Videos

Discover the challenges faced by coal miners and the changes to the industry between 1917 and 2017
Learn about the lives of coal miners in the early 20th century in this video.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The never-ending underground fire of Centralia, Pennsylvania
Learn about the underground coal mine fire burning in Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how Poland's rich mineral resources sulfur and bituminous coal are mined
Sulfur and coal mining in Poland.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Study how Teddy Roosevelt leveraged federal power over mine owners to earn a victory for labouers
Teddy Roosevelt's intervention in a 1902 coalminers' strike had a lasting impact...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

coal mine
Schematic diagram of an underground coal mine, showing surface facilities, access...
CONSOL Coal Group
Mongolia: coal mine
Tavantolgoi coal mine, southern Gobi, Mongolia.
Adrian Bradshaw—EPA/Shutterstock.com
Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.
Wellcome Collection, London (CC0 1.0 Public Domain)
A longwall miner shearing coal at the face of a coal seam; from an underground mine...
Joy Technologies Inc.
Inserting steel bolts to support the roof of an underground mine in West Virginia,...
CONSOL Coal Group/photograph, Mel Grubb
Schematic diagram of a flotation separation cell.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
coal miner loading a drill hole with an explosive
A coal miner loading a drill hole with a water gel explosive called Tovex.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
company-owned coal miner homes, Holden, West Virginia, 1920s
Company-owned homes of coal miners along railroad tracks, Holden, West Virginia,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
coal mine
Coal mine in Clarksburg, W.Va.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Haybro, Colorado: coal-mining pit
Wall of coal-mining pit near Haybro, Colorado, U.S.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
coal cutter
Rail-mounted coal-cutting machine, 19th century.
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