Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area in which deposits of coal are found.
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- noun Any region containing deposits of
coal that may be mined
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- noun a region where there is coal underground
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only people who benefit from mining are the coal executives with rich compensation packages, and to a lesser extent the miners and their families (who make up a tiny percentage of people living in coalfield communities).
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Energizer has initiated discussions with Asia Thai Mining (Pan African Mining), one of two companies that are developing the large Sakoa coalfield, which is located approximately 30 kilometres northwest of the Green Giant Vanadium Project.
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Jharia coalfield, which is a famous coalfield of Dhanbad, stretches from west to east in the shape of sickle.
rediff.com 2010
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Energizer has initiated discussions with Asia Thai Mining (Pan African Mining), one of two companies that are developing the large Sakoa coalfield, which is located approximately 30 kilometres northwest of the Green Giant Vanadium Project.
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The Jharia coalfield which is the only coking coal source of India is located in the district of Dhanbad (Jharkhand).
rediff.com 2010
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State and local leaders and policy-makers should recognize the economic and regulatory realities facing the region's coal industry, and should take steps to help diversify coalfield economies.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Interview With Rory McIlmoil, 'Tesla of the Coalfields' on Green Jobs Jeff Biggers 2011
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"Roadmaps to New Power" is a series of interviews with activists, residents, entrepreneurs and industry analysts about current plans and visions for a just transition to clean energy and sustainable economic development in coalfield communities around the nation.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Interview With Rory McIlmoil, 'Tesla of the Coalfields' on Green Jobs Jeff Biggers 2011
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Or, as GOP members of the US House Commerce and Energy and their Big Coal-bankrolled colleagues continue their wildly misinformed banter this week on the economic impact of the EPA's enforcement of the Clean Water Act, coalfield residents from Alaska to Appalachia are turning to Rory McIlmoil, the "Tesla of the coalfields," for another question:
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Interview With Rory McIlmoil, 'Tesla of the Coalfields' on Green Jobs Jeff Biggers 2011
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Hailed as a cross between Erin Brockovich and the legendary Aunt Molly Jackson, Harlan County native Teri Blanton has been one of the most inspiring and fearless activists on the eastern Kentucky coalfield frontlines.
Jeff Biggers: EPA on the Brink: Kentucky Leader Teri Blanton on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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So what this means is that it is difficult to assume that any jobs lost from a reduction or elimination of mountaintop removal will or can be absorbed in new underground mines, but this is just another reason to start incentivizing and supporting new economic development in the coalfield communities.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Interview With Rory McIlmoil, 'Tesla of the Coalfields' on Green Jobs Jeff Biggers 2011
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