Coal Mine

Definition: Coal Mine

Coal Mine

Noun

1. A mine where coal is dug from the ground.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Coal Mine

Crosswords: Coal Mine

Always carry a yo-yo in case you get trapped in a coal mine. (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith)

WELL I BEEN WORKIN' IN A COAL MINE (Working In A Coal Mine; performing artist: Devo)

WORKIN' IN A COAL MINE (Working In A Coal Mine; performing artist: Devo)

From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun ("Me and Bobby McGee"; performing artist: Janis Joplin)

My daddy worked all night in the Vanleer coal mine (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn)

Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913)

Down In The Coal Mine (performing artist: Ian Folk Group Campbell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Periodicals

• Coal Mine Directory (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung Disease, is a job related disease caused by continued exposure to excessive amounts of coal mine dust. This dust becomes imbedded in the lungs, causing them to harden, making breathing very difficult. Credit: CDC.

Douglas Fir grows after 5 years in reclaimed site near Centralia coal mine. Credit: Kelly Courtright.

Coal mine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coal mine, Floyd County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Abandoned coal mine, Garrett County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

McCone County, Montana. Coal mine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Small, privately owned coal mine next to owner's shacks by the side of the road. Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Passing small privately owned coal mine on way to town Saturday afternoon. Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gallup (vicinity), New Mexico. Gallup American Mining Company coal mine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kelly Creek, West Virginia. Coal mine tipple. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Trade

Colombia

Colombia's Industrial Development Fund (IFI) has been heavily involved in project financing and has taken over most of the obligations acquired by the financial funds administered by the Central Bank before the restructuring of the Central Bank in 1992. IFI has equity in such major Colombian projects as the Cerromatoso ferronickel mine and the Cerrejon open pit coal mine (the world's largest). (references)

Worker Rights

China

However, in May 39 prisoner-miners were killed in a coal mine flood in Sichuan Province in May. (references)

Kazakhstan

In June there were three instances when the Chairman of the Tentenskaya Coal Mine Independent Union was barred from the mine's territory by mine security. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

minierë qymyrguri (colliery). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجم فحم حجري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

каменовъглена мина (colliery). (various references)

Czech

uhelný dùl. (various references)

French

mine de charbon. (various references)

German

Steinkohlenbergwerk. (various references)

Greek 

ανθρακωρυχείο (coal pit, colliery). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכר�" פחם (pit). (various references)

Hungarian

szénbánya (coal pit, colliery, delf, delft). (various references)

Italian

miniera di carbone (colliery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

炭坑 (coal pit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"�"う (coal pit, doing by oneself, forged steel, going alone, metal worker, mineral exploration, monadic, simplex, unary), さいた�"じょ. (various references)

Pig Latin

oalcay inemay

Romanian

minã de cãrbuni (coal pit, colliery). (various references)

Russian 

угольная шахта (coal pit, coal-mine, colliery), каменноугольная копь (colliery). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rudnik uglja. (various references)

Turkish

kömür ocağı (coalpit, colliery), kömür madeni. (various references)

Misspellings

"Coal Mine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coal ming. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: encomia, limacon, melanic.

-2 letters: aeonic, alnico, anemic, anomic, anomie, camion, cinema, cineol, enolic, eolian, iceman, income, inlace, lomein, malice, maline, manioc, menial, moline, oilcan, oilman, oilmen.

-3 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, amice, amine, amino, amnic, amnio, amole, anile, anime, anole, camel, cameo, canoe, celom, claim, clean, clime, cline, clone, colin, comae, comal, elain.

+1 letter: demonical, melanotic, policeman.

+2 letters: ceremonial, chloramine, colemanite, combinable, complained, complainer, compliance, demoniacal, economical, nonmedical, normalcies.

+3 letters: aeronomical, amylopectin, beclamoring, ceremonials, chameleonic, chloramines, colemanites, communalize, complainers, compliances, condimental, confirmable, declamation, demonically, egomaniacal, endoplasmic, exclamation, glucosamine, infomercial, lamellicorn, macronuclei, malediction, malefaction, megalomanic, melancholia, melancholic, metonymical, mineralogic, nematocidal, nonchemical, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, oecumenical, policewoman, reclamation, scopolamine.

+4 letters: amylopectins, anecdotalism, ceremonially, commensalism, commonalties, communalized, communalizes, communicable, compellation, complaisance, complexation, complexional, compliancies, componential, counterclaim, decalcomania, declamations, demoniacally, economically, emasculation, exclamations, glucosamines, incommutable, incomparable, incompatible, incomputable, inconsumable, infomercials, kleptomaniac, lamellicorns, maledictions, malefactions, megalomaniac, melancholiac, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, mendaciously, metronomical, microbalance, mnemonically, monometallic, nonchemicals, nonempirical, nonmercurial, nonnumerical, oleandomycin, overclaiming, phonemically, pinealectomy, reclamations, scopolamines, sectionalism, semicolonial, uncommercial, uneconomical.

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