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  • Thumbnail for Coal mining
    Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...
    77 KB (11,728 words) - 12:02, 28 April 2024
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    A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate)...
    36 KB (4,917 words) - 16:48, 4 October 2023
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    Anthracite (redirect from Hard coal)
    are black coal, hard coal, stone coal, dark coal, coffee coal, blind coal (in Scotland), Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow coal or craw coal, and black...
    31 KB (3,567 words) - 23:55, 21 May 2024
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    A coal preparation plant (CPP; also known as a coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP), coal handling plant, prep plant, tipple or wash plant) is a...
    13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:11, 14 June 2023
  • Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical musical film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay written by Tom Rickman. It follows the story...
    30 KB (2,572 words) - 19:10, 8 May 2024
  • the coal seam and set rings (arches) to raise the height of the gate or road as the coal face advances. Screens Term for the pit head, where coal was...
    28 KB (3,880 words) - 22:30, 24 February 2024
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    Rolling coal (also spelled rollin' coal) is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to emit large amounts of black or grey sooty exhaust fumes—diesel...
    37 KB (3,107 words) - 02:03, 6 May 2024
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    Pit brow women (category Coal mining in England)
    They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank (or brow) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones from the coal after it was hauled...
    8 KB (948 words) - 02:30, 28 February 2024
  • Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs is a 1943 Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on January 16, 1943. The film...
    24 KB (2,950 words) - 15:15, 23 May 2024
  • National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry...
    15 KB (1,608 words) - 19:36, 18 March 2024
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    musical Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She received two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors...
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  • three sections, and a blast is set off in one of the sections to open new coal veins. Upon the blast, it is noticed that the shaft is leaking water. An...
    34 KB (2,735 words) - 22:24, 24 April 2024
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    consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence...
    26 KB (3,295 words) - 22:05, 24 March 2024
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    or to a whole population without symptoms or signs of the disease being screened. Screening interventions are designed to identify conditions which could...
    36 KB (4,454 words) - 07:15, 13 May 2024
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    A smoke screen is smoke released to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks, aircraft, or ships. Smoke screens are commonly...
    22 KB (2,746 words) - 06:56, 19 May 2024
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    Sissy Spacek (category Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
    numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime...
    40 KB (3,447 words) - 23:27, 1 May 2024
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    Tipple (redirect from Coal tipple)
    (e.g., coal, ores) for transport, typically into railroad hopper cars. In the United States, tipples have been frequently associated with coal mines,...
    4 KB (394 words) - 18:36, 22 August 2023
  • especially, coal preparation industry. Moreover, it can be found in other industries such as chemical, environmental, food and other mining fields. Screen scroll...
    17 KB (2,390 words) - 06:46, 19 May 2024
  • to screen, load and push wagon filled coal to the railway sides. Some were tasked to remove boiler ash, push unloaded coal and sprinkle water on coal. With...
    7 KB (877 words) - 18:14, 24 October 2023
  • Quadri. It is the first part of the movie Gangs of Wasseypur, centered on the coal mafia of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance...
    60 KB (6,599 words) - 15:31, 19 May 2024
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