List of coalfields

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A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological. A coalfield often groups the seams of coal, railroad companies, cultural groups, and watersheds and other geographical considerations.

At one time the coalfield designation was an important category in business and industrial discussions. The terminology declined into unimportance as the 20th Century progressed, and was probably only referred to by a few small railroads and history buffs by the 1980s. Renewed interest in industrial heritage and coal mining history has brought the old names of the coalfields before a larger audience.

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[edit] Australian

[edit] Canada

May also refer to the Rural Municipality of Coalfields No. 4, Saskatchewan

Coalfields of Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Northern France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Belgium

[edit] The Netherlands

[edit] Poland

[edit] France

[edit] Great Britain

[1]

[edit] England

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Wales

[edit] India

[edit] Japan

[edit] Pakistan

[edit] South Africa

See also: Coal in South Africa

[edit] United States

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Alaska

[edit] Arkansas

[edit] Colorado

[edit] Illinois

[edit] Indiana

[edit] Iowa

[edit] Kansas

[edit] Kentucky

These are geologic terms, as opposed to the largely economic definition that appears to be used for most of the other sub-entries in this entry. Kentucky is the only state with two separate and distinct bituminous coalfields of the geologic definition: They contain many seams of coal that underlie a large area and form a continuous region where coal is found (except around the edges, where eriosion and faults have created outlying areas of coal). In other states and nations with more complex geology, coalfields are often smaller and more discontinuous, and thus are identified as separate fields though they may have the same geologic origin. In Kentucky, both coalfields are of Pennsylvanian geologic age, but coal in Western Kentucky, part of the Illinois Basin, tends to have higher sulfur content than coals in the east, part of the greater Central Appalachian coalfield. In some cases the state's two fields are referred to as Eastern and Western and "coal field," two words rather than one.

[edit] Maryland

[edit] North Carolina

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Pennsylvania

[edit] Tennessee

[edit] Utah

[edit] West Virginia

[edit] Virginia

[edit] Wyoming

[edit] Ukraine

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7456/1/CR06159N.pdf
  2. ^ a b c d e f "About SA coalfields". Keaton Energy. http://www.keatonenergy.co.za/cm/sa_coal.asp. Retrieved 15 January 2010. 

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