"While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust."

#BlackLung #CoalMining #SilicaDust #Appalachia #MiningReform #PublicHealth #CoalIndustry #Trump

https://e360.yale.edu/features/black-lung-pennsylvania

The Big Hewer - A Radio Ballad by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger, released on Argo in 1967 but first broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1960.

Coalmining presented itself as a natural subject for a radio ballad since Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger had spent part of 1960 working as resident songwriters and music arrangers for the National Coal Board film department. The Big Hewer was the fourth in the series and named after the mythically prodigious miner of coal legend who appears by a different name in each mining locality (a similar figure with superhuman work powers, John Henry, exists in American work gang mythology).

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/the-radio-ballads-the-big-hewer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7LuLSJBLM

#EwanMcColl #PeggySeeger #CharlesParker #RadioBallad #FolkMusic #CoalMining #BBC #Music

Former history teacher Glynn Wales starts our coverage of the 100th anniversary of the General Strike by telling the story of what the Echo called ...

“EVERY second shop in Newgate Street, the main street in Bishop Auckland, shuttered up and the shopkeeper ruined,” wrote the town’s prospective MP Hugh Dalton in his diary 100 years ago.#BishopAuckland #HughDalton #WinstonChurchill #StanleyBaldwin #CountyDurham #theLabourParty #Coalmining #ArthurCook #BarnardCastle #ErnestBevin #Britishcoal #theGeneralStrike
Were the miners "hopelessly defeated" in the Great Strike of 100 years ago?

India Embeds Underground Coal Gasification in First Commercial Mine Deals

India's Ministry of Coal signed 4 new deals yesterday, April 28, for coal mines that will use underground gasification. This changes how coal is used.

#CoalGasification, #IndiaEnergy, #RelianceIndustries, #AxisEnergy, #CoalMining

https://newsletter.tf/india-underground-coal-gasification-new-deals/

For the first time, India is using underground coal gasification in new mine deals. This is a big change from just digging coal out of the ground.

#CoalGasification, #IndiaEnergy, #RelianceIndustries, #AxisEnergy, #CoalMining
https://newsletter.tf/india-underground-coal-gasification-new-deals/

In the blunted night of the coal shed,
without a torch, my fingers dig
among the coal for the coal.
Hear it scutter into the bucket…

—Brian McCabe, “Coal”
published in BODY PARTS, @canongatebooks 1999

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/coal/

#Scottish #literature #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #poem #poetry #coalmining

Someone read my post on the NCB Rawdon coal mine check: https://coinofnote.com/n-c-b-rawdon-check-uk/

They asked if I could find any info on Denis Cook who was a foreman there. Do any of my followers happen to have any contacts who might have any info I can pass on please?

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #Token #Check #Coal #CoalMining #Industry #UK #Help #History #Histodons @numismatics @histodons

Gairs Colliery — Where the Rocket Spent its Retirement

An unexpected find in the King’s Forest of Geltsdale. What stands here now is a hollow shell, but once it was the pulse of Gairs Colliery, a lonely Cumbrian mine with a knack for odd decisions and even odder management. A railway once ran from this spot up to the col. You can still trace its fa ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/15/gairs-colliery-where-the-rocket-spent-its-retirement/

#Cumbria #Geltsdale #CoalMining #history

@Everyone air, water, wind blown contamination from #CoalMining will contaminate large areas of Alberta and likely beyond.

https://waterforfood.substack.com/p/government-scientists-identify-coal