“Coke may be combusted, producing little or no smoke, while bituminous coal would produce much smoke.”

“If a coalman sells a bag of coal with 10 kg less coal in it than it should have, then he will make an extra profit.”

“A coalman from York has become world champion in what must be one of the most unusual sports in existence.”

“However, the son of a Somerset coalman wasn't content with staying put in Devon.”

“The Coalsack Nebula is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way.”

“The Kalapalo people of Mato Grosso state in Brazil saw the stars of Crux as Aganagi angry bees having emerged from the Coalsack, which they saw as the beehive.”

“After the first half of the expedition, Vespucci mapped Alpha and Beta Centauri, as well as the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross and the Coalsack Nebula.”

“His father, a farmer and owner of a small coalpit, returned each morning from his walk to the colliery with glowing reports of what he had seen in the landscape.”

“It was the year of the Cannock coalpit explosion tragedy, the year British airship R101 crashed in France, and the year in which Princess Margaret was born.”

“It was found on fire around two hours later at Coalpit Lane, Denaby, and has since been recovered by police for forensic examination.”

“The humic organic matter of peat is also altered on burial, water and volatiles being lost during the process of coalification.”

“Depending on the degree of carbon concentration and coalification, one differentiates between lignite, bituminous coal and anthracite.”

“Rank measures the amount of coalification, or alteration, the mineral has undergone in its formation.”

“There is a walled concrete courtyard with a garage, boilerhouse and coalhouse to the back.”

“A neighbour, who had found it in a skip, minus hands, glass, and other vital components, had left it in Martin's coalhouse as a present.”

“In addition, there is a coalhouse and boiler house located off a small courtyard that can be accessed from the kitchen or the garden.”

“With an operational clam-shell bucket, the coaler allows you to unload a hopper car by scooping the coal from inside.”

“This time the little craft had worked around abeam of the coaler, the latter's lights showing dimly in the thick fog.”

“The story of the wreck and the sinking of the coaler had by this time been spread all over the country.”

“There should be a window in the coalbin through which the coal can be put in.”

“If this is not possible, the next best thing is to have the coalbin enclosed, for the coal makes the worst of the cellar dirt.”

“I smile now as I recall that watermelon grin, when the darkey yawned like a coalbin in expression of his greeting.”

“The coalfield represents an erosional remnant of the South Wales coal basin preserved within the Variscan fold belt.”

“This surface and the overlying bauxitic claystones are broadly distributed across most of central Guangxi, including the Heshan coalfield.”

“Smaller villages, depressed coalfield areas and more remote or isolated settlements are more likely to experience pub closures.”

“A wharf was built at Daneway Bridge, equipped with a warehouse and coalyard.”

“An Appalachian coalminer happily poses next to a cherry-red truck, bought with compensation for his black lung disease.”

“Take Otgonbayar, an unemployed coalminer in the town of Nalaikh.”

“His grandfather was a coalminer who kept a few pigs.”

“There was Mr Fox and his trucks carting coal from the pitheads and they were held not to be in the coalmining industry.”

“This is a benevolent fund, to which the coalmining companies contribute an amount that is levied on them, for the benefit of miners and their families, and the community.”

“Industrial expansion here depended on coalmining and iron working.”

“The union's refusal to defend jobs has left mining communities throughout the Appalachian coalfields in a depression-like state.”

“People here know there is a lot of ill health in the coalfields area, but the extent of it shocked everyone.”

“A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully.”

“For years they were happy selling pease pudding, dripping and pigeon feed to soot-faced coalminers on cobbled street-corners.”

“The second incident was during the Tonypandy Riot of 1910, when the striking coalminers attacked the shops and premises in the town centre.”

“Later, Welsh flannel was worn by the coalminers and steelmakers of Wales.”

“Standing at Xiangjiaba village, 370m below one sees coalers and cement carriers stream up and down a narrow channel off the far bank.”

“The fleet was accompanied for parts of the tour by auxiliaries including supply ships and coalers.”

“In the March 2001 issue Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Polar explorer, is Guest Editor and articles include a look at the plight of the albatross and Britain's sea coalers.”