coalfield
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊlˌfiːld/
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cuenca carbonífera
- Not until 1913 did the coal industry reach its peak, by which time it was, according to historian Kenneth Morgan, "emphatically the largest and most prosperous coalfield in Britain, probably in the world."
- Colorado coalfield
- Virginia coalfield
- coalfield communities
But the same is true say, about coalfield towns or most of the steel towns.
- But the same is true say, about coalfield towns or most of the steel towns.
Examples
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They're all over the coalfields.
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That is what we need now in the coalfields: candor.
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Today, I completed a long journey that began in a small village in a coalfield.
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That were the start of the great Coalfield War, and us miners took the worst of it, like Joe said we would.
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My questions about the coalfield economy are more basic than whether we get a maximum-security prison.
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Unfortunately, these mine closures are only the latest examples of how Washington's regulatory assault on coal is turning Virginia's coalfield communities into ghost towns.
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Later, Philadelphia railroads, the Pennsylvania and the Reading, linked the coalfields to the city's markets, tying the region even more tightly to the metropolis.
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Financed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company, Spring Valley was one in a series of small hamlets that made up the upper Illinois Valley's coalfields.
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As Deborah Weiner observes of central Appalachia, "From the late 1890s and well into the post-World War II era, women were essential to the creation and maintenance of numerous small Jewish coalfield communities."
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The coalfield in this region has been a significant source of energy for decades.
Synonyms
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An area where natural resources like oil or minerals are found
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Etymology
The word coalfield is made of coal ('black rock used for fuel') and field ('open land'). So a coalfield is an area of land where coal is found and taken out.