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Sep 27 2018Mining for coal gold lead copper and other minerals has left behind a lot of land that's not always easy to reuse despite laws that may require the mining company to reclaim the land after the minerals have been carted away About National Geographic Society The National Geographic Society is a global nonprofit organization that uses In the heart of West ia's coal country organizers fight for a wind farm that could save Coal River Mountain where a mining operation is under way This video features footage from Overburden a documentary in progress that chronicles one town's struggle to chart its energy future in the shadow of the coal

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May 27 2009Speaking of China the magazine noted that "coal is a lethal necessity in China home to the world's deadliest mines "Official records log 3 786 mining deaths in 2007 an average of more than 10 a day " it said "Yet that's a dramatic drop since 2002 when nearly 7 000 died most in small-scale mines "

Mining causes profound impacts on biodiversity In Brazil mining pressure is intense especially in highly biodiverse regions such as the Espinhao range We analyzed the direct and indirect effects of mining on the potential geographic range of 32 anuran and eight species endemic to the eastern Brazil mountaintops

First National Battery Mining Batteries have been designed for harsh underground mining conditions and are used by all the major South African mining groups including platinum gold diamonds coal uranium copper iron as well as antimony Currently there are more than 180 000 First National Battery mining battery cells in use underground daily

Aug 19 2017SW_COAL_ENTRY the predecessor of COAL_MINE_ENTRIES_IN is a point- based ESRI ArcView shapefile that shows the locations of underground coal mine entrances in the coal region of Indiana SW_COAL_ENTRY includes entrance locations of underground mines that operated in Indiana since the mid-1800s

Mine owners have expressed concerns that there will be too few trained miners if demand increased Many children of miners have moved away or chosen other lines of work and new hires will need formal training in coal mining ia's coal mines are all in the Appalachian Plateau in a handful of southwestern counties

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Apr 28 2015National Geographic Magazine The National Geographic society was founded by a group of 33 scholars military men cartographers explorers and world-travelers on January 27th 1888 came together at the cosmos club in Washington D C to found The National Geographic Society

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The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War The conflict occurred in Logan County West ia as part of the Coal Wars a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia Up to 100 people were killed and many more arrested The United Mine Workers saw major declines in membership

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production

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Photos by franslanting | Last week Antartica posted the hottest temperatures ever recorded there with Seymour Island reaching more than 20 degrees Celsius (69F) I felt that heat myself because I was at work in an Adlie penguin colony not far away on the Antarctic Peninsula where

Coal mining extraction of coal deposits from the surface of Earth and from underground Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel on Earth Its predominant use has always been for producing heat energy It was the basic energy source that fueled the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th

From the Ashes Documentary

View the press release "National Geographic Documentary Films Acquires 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Selection From the Ashes" View the press release "National Geographic Broadens Access to Documentary on the Impacts of Coal and America's Energy Future with Free Streaming Release of From the Ashes" Download the full trailer

May 25 2011Special From National Geographic News By Marianne Lavelle For more energy news from National Geographic go here When Massey Energy Chief E US Edition U S That would have been 30 percent more coal than the mine produced in all of 2009 In 2009 the output at Upper Big Branch was more than three times higher than the previous year's

Coal | National Geographic Society Coal is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that is combusted and used to generate electricity Mining techniques and combustion are both dangerous to miners and hazardous to the environment however coal accounts for about half of

Resource Library | this day in geographic history Dec 6 1907 CE Monongah Mining Disaster On December 6 1907 more than 350 miners died in an explosion in a series of coal mines in Monongah West ia The Monongah Mining Disaster remains the worst mining accident in U S history

In Australia nearly 80% of coal is produced from open-cut mines in contrast with the rest of the world where open-cut mining only accounts for 40% of coal production Open-cut mining is cheaper than underground mining and enables up to 90% recovery of the in situ resource Coal may be used without any processing other than crushing and