coal face

[′kōl ‚fās]

(mining engineering)

The mining face from which coal is extracted.

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Water had been coming into the section since for several days but on that day of the accident it started to get worse and was flowing from the coal face.

Man drowns in colliery tragedy

After excavation, the monitoring lines were arranged along the Y direction at x = 200 and z = 29 to extract the compaction rate of the gob area at different distances behind the coal face, which provided an inversion basis for the 2D model to analyze the deformation and failure rules of drainage boreholes at different distances behind the coal face.

Spatial and Temporal Distribution Law and Influencing Factors of the Mining-Induced Deformation and Failure of Gas Boreholes

At Vane Tempest Colliery, Seaham, the film follows the miners in the lamp room and descending in the cage to the coal face. Then it's off to nearby Shotton Colliery to see coal being blasted.

Breathing life into the past; New film captures long-gone days down the region's pits

"Because of this neither UK Coal or the subsidiary firm at Daw Mill were in a position to dictate to BBB over who should be involved in the new coal face," she said.

LAID?OFF MINERS LOSE RACE CLAIM; Trio lost out to Poles for new Daw Mill jobs

I WAS reading the letters in Tuesday's Evening Gazette and saw the letter from Councillor Ken Hall decrying the actions of the government in cutting finances due to the current financial crisis, who now wants to protect the jobs of workers at the coal face.

Different tune; Your say

But it was an hour's trip to the coal face and an hour back.

Tale of the boys from the black stuff; Miner John Graham had some story to tell after a working life of 34 years below ground. He talks to Tony Henderson

A spokesman for the company said the firm was stopping production "while suspect valves on the roof supports of the coal face are changed".

Death sparks colliery shut-down

A spokesman said the firm was stopping production "while suspect valves on the roof supports of the coal face are changed".

Mining firm is forced to stop production in wake of death

The company stated that the United Kingdom's Health and Safety Executive ordered production from the coal face at Kellingley to stop on October 23, 2009.

UK Coal to miss FY production target

By 2003, at age 49 years, he had spent 6 years at the coal face and 25 years as a roofbolter, ** and a chest radiograph indicated category 1/2 small opacities, suggesting simple pneumoconiosis.

Advanced pneumoconiosis among working underground coal miners--eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, 2006

In my letter about my time as a teenager working at the coal face in Abertridwr in the early 1940s (Viewpoints, March 20) I mentioned carrying a drinking jack like the boy pictured in the 1927 Echo flashback.

Viewpoints Leather out of the question

GREAT management, as ever, from Craig Levein in sending Garry Kenneth on loan to Cowdenbeath for a harsh lesson on life at the real coal face of football.