Both in present times til this very day ,the mining of coal has been a dangerous but much needed job to have in the United States. Without coal , a lot of things wouldn't be possible because coal is the main reason something works.
Thus in order to get the coal , miners have to dig for it and extract it from the ground. The workers have to use big machines to dig through the layers of topsoil and overburden to the layer of topsoil. When they've gotten down to the coal,and are done working on that area they've been digging at, they lay down more topsoil and grass seeds so that the area grows back .Modern mining has a lot of advantages than the mining back in the day. In today's time, were able to produce about three times the amount of coal
Thus in order to get the coal , miners have to dig for it and extract it from the ground. The workers have to use big machines to dig through the layers of topsoil and overburden to the layer of topsoil. When they've gotten down to the coal,and are done working on that area they've been digging at, they lay down more topsoil and grass seeds so that the area grows back .Modern mining has a lot of advantages than the mining back in the day. In today's time, were able to produce about three times the amount of coal