For these reasons, coal has been one of the first fossil fuels to be phased out of various parts of the global energy economy.
The coal mining industry has a long history of significant negative environmental impacts on local ecosystems, health impacts on local communities and workers, and contributes heavily to the global environmental crises, such as poor air quality and climate change. Mining at this scale requires the use of draglines, trucks, conveyors, hydraulic jacks and shearers. Process of getting coal out of the groundĬoal miners exiting winder cage at a mine near Richlands, Virginia, US (1974) Surface coal mining in Wyoming, US A coal mine in Frameries, BelgiumĬoal mining has had many developments in recent years, from the early days of men tunneling, digging and manually extracting the coal on carts to large open-cut and longwall mines.
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