Coal mining

In Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary there is a second lesson in the book that is about coal mining. The lesson is called The Cookie Mining Lesson in this lesson the students are asked to mine a cookie for the chocolate chips. The readers are implied to read inbetween the lines for the lines of the lesson to see something different that what the Coal Foundation intends for the students to learn. In Lesson 2 Students will learn how to buy land, pay employees hourly wage and more when coal is being produced, and buy equipment for mining. This will give the students the chance to see how the coal mining process works and how difficult it is to be a owner and a miner. The lesson in the book shows students how to buy land to start up a coal mine, tools, and how to pay the “employees”. As the lesson starts off the teacher gives the students play money to get them ready to start their purchases. Then she tells them how much each state’s land will be, this makes the students think about where they should spend their money to get the best outcome for their profit. Then she gives them a list tools that they can buy to start their build. Once they have all of the land and tools they need/ wanted to buy, they have to learn how much to pay each of their ‘workers’ who will be working for them and what the workers have to do in order to…

Since the beginning of the coal mining industries in the 1800s, thousands of mines have been created, extracting the precious mineral, and then dumped, empty and hollow. Once industries finished with a certain area, it would be dropped and they would move on, drilling in another location. The act of reclaiming these mines did not come to light until 1977 when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed by Congress after they saw the disruption in the environment. This act put a…

Underground, dark, warm, and damp is the work environment of a coal miner. Coal mining has been around since the 1300’s. Since then, technology has changed and is still booming in today’s society. It was approximately around the late 1800’s that coal became a significant resource in generating electricity. The differences in coal mining today and back then were tremendously different. Many men worked underground with just the light of a candle. It was very hot and damp underground. Working…

The coal mining industry allows our society to thrive by providing consistent job opportunities and a stable cash flow for our economy. The fear of coal mining, however, still resides within our society. The devastating deaths that occur during mining disasters are a prominent, but negative, impact of the coal mining industry. The Big Branch coal mining disaster illustrates that technology is good in specified ways and bad in other specified ways because of the economic benefits the industry…

The coal mining industry in the late 1800s, especially in Colorado, was a rapidly growing industry. As fossil fuel technologies expanded, life became increasingly dependent on fossil fuels, and as a result, people became more reliant on coal as an energy source. However, without the introduction of the railroad, coal would have remained just a minor industry (Andrews 2008, 54). These railways made it possible to connect the coal production areas with the markets, and thus possible to bring coal…

Discussion There are obviously both negatives and positive impacts of Mpumalanga coal mines. Positives being the economic growth they provide not only to Mpumalanga, but to South Africa as a whole. While negatives being the environmental damages they have caused and are causing presently. Mostly on the agriculture due to the land destruction and the polluting of water and air which is having a knock on effect of the communities living in Mpumalanga. In order to find out whether the positives…

“I don’t think I’m any different than a school teacher or a doctor we all have a job to do and were trained to do it” (Coal a Love Story). The Sago mining disaster is just one of the numerous mining disasters that were easily preventable. The miners that perished rely on coal for their income and many had no choice but to go into the industry. The world has a love-hate relationship with coal. It is often very “on again off again”. During World War II coal production was at an all-time high.…

In West Virginia no “extensive mining took place until the mid-1800s, although coal was known to be throughout much of the state.” At that time coal usage in West Virginia was mainly for heating living quarters or for retail markets such as a blacksmiths. The inhabitants of Wheeling, West Virginia used coal to heat their homes in 1810, and the “first steamboat to use coal on the Ohio River. In the beginning, local inhabitants would surface mined the coal, using picks and shovels to dig the coal…

As you know coal is an energy source. You may ask the question: How is coal mined and how it is used? Coal mining is very big in south east Queensland, the biggest is New Acland mine out near Oakey. later in my report I will be talking about the New Acland project and what they are doing to rehabilitate mined land. I will be telling you about how coal is formed and mined. One form of Coal mining is an open cut mine. Open-cut mines are a way of mining with high explosives with the assistance of…

Appalachia is a ticking time bomb! This is because the coal mining industry is on a constant downfall. The failing coal mine industry has brought about many new ideas to try and improve the economy. In the past the Appalachia was a very thriving economy it is like our modern-day Atlanta. Every and anyone need or used coal in some way shape or form. This kept all of the people in Appalachia having a job. But as the time went on the use for coal has dropped. People are reverting to alternate…