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  • and pillar mining was one of the earliest methods used, although with significantly more manpower. The room and pillar system is used in mining coal, gypsum...
    15 KB (1,946 words) - 20:33, 10 June 2024
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    the coal in the pillars, thereby recovering as much coal from the coal seam as possible. A work area involved in pillar extraction is called a pillar section...
    78 KB (11,990 words) - 02:23, 28 September 2024
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    European Communities pillar handled economic, social and environmental policies. It comprised the European Community (EC), the European Coal and Steel Community...
    8 KB (1,326 words) - 22:22, 21 September 2024
  • previously supported by coal mined from rooms is redistributed to pillars. If that weight exceeds the strength of a pillar, the pillar can fail by crushing...
    4 KB (425 words) - 14:24, 9 May 2023
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    The Treaty of Paris (formally the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community) was signed on 18 April 1951 between France, Italy, West Germany...
    3 KB (609 words) - 19:44, 18 December 2023
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    Centralia, Pennsylvania (category Coal towns in Pennsylvania)
    using techniques such as what was called "pillar-robbing," where miners would extract coal from coal pillars left in mines to support their roofs. This...
    44 KB (4,647 words) - 12:19, 4 November 2024
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    Longwall mining (category Coal mining)
    foundations. Longwall and room and pillar methods of mining can both be used for mining suitable underground coal seams. Longwall has better resource...
    25 KB (3,222 words) - 00:52, 17 October 2024
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    impersonating the rather abstract Union, becoming at the same time its first pillar. In popular language, however, the singular European Community was sometimes...
    20 KB (2,442 words) - 19:08, 29 June 2024
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    renamed the European Community (EC) upon becoming integrated into the first pillar of the newly formed European Union (EU) in 1993. In the popular language...
    53 KB (5,448 words) - 21:18, 15 October 2024
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    down upon the floor. Room and pillar methods are well adapted to mechanization, and are used in deposits such as coal, potash, phosphate, salt, oil shale...
    4 KB (568 words) - 16:47, 22 June 2024
  • was a siding for coal tubs. Pillar A pillar is a section of unworked coal supporting the roof. Unworked pillars of coal are left to prevent subsidence...
    28 KB (3,888 words) - 07:53, 27 August 2024
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    The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to integrate Europe's coal and steel industries into...
    43 KB (4,570 words) - 07:26, 21 October 2024
  • central shaft, or a technique called room and pillar in which 'rooms' of coal were extracted with pillars left to support the roofs. Both of these techniques...
    84 KB (10,935 words) - 21:35, 1 November 2024
  • native firms. At first coal was raised from open workings; but regular mining is now carried on, according to the system known as ‘pillar and stall’… The miners...
    8 KB (677 words) - 21:57, 28 December 2023
  • Coalbrook mining disaster (category Coal in South Africa)
    occurred in the Coalbrook coal mine of Clydesdale Colliery on 21 January 1960 at around 19:00 when approximately 900 pillars caved in, almost 180 metres...
    9 KB (1,175 words) - 03:30, 26 August 2024
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    mining, tunnels are advanced into the coal or ore body in a rectangular pattern resembling city streets. Pillars are left between tunnels to support the...
    3 KB (350 words) - 15:40, 20 December 2023
  • predominant coal measure in the Black Country was the ten yard thick seam. Coal was extracted using the Pillar and Stall method with pillars of coal left in...
    6 KB (838 words) - 16:07, 9 June 2024
  • Chain Valley Colliery (category Coal mines in New South Wales)
    1960, with coal production commencing in 1961. The Wallarah, Great Northern and Fassifern coal seams have been mined using board and pillar, Miniwall and...
    2 KB (146 words) - 00:44, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pompeys Pillar National Monument
    Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a rock formation located in south central Montana, United States. Designated a national monument on January 17, 2001...
    7 KB (513 words) - 00:41, 8 October 2024
  • metal-related cancer has been found among coal mine workers. Subsidence is another problem posed by coal extraction. The “pillar” extraction mode was used until...
    20 KB (2,747 words) - 19:45, 16 October 2024
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