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Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation. Coal towns were abandoned when the coal (or the need for it) ran out.
The Stockton mine railway was, in 1908, New Zealand’s first electric railway. It carried coal from the Westport-Stockton Coal Companies mine to the NZR railhead at Ngakawau on the West Coast of the South Island from 1908 to 1953, when it was replaced by an aerial cableway. The line was 10.5 km long, with 2.4 km in two long tunnels.
Rotowaro, a coal mining town, was removed in the 1980s to make way for an opencast mine. It is the site of the now abandoned Rotowaro Carbonisation Plant . Te Hutewai was a very small farming community located around 10 km south of Raglan , in the Waikato District .
Buxton, a camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned. Cleveland, a camp of the Whitebreast Coal and Mining Company, outside Lucas, abandoned. Everist, a camp of the Mammoth Vein Coal Company (later, the Empire Coal Company), abandoned. Muchakinock, a coal camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned.
List of coal mines. List of coal mines in Australia. List of collieries in Newcastle (Australia) List of coal mines in Queensland; List of coal mines in Canada. List of coal mines and landmarks in the Nanaimo area; List of coal mines in Japan; List of coal mines in the United Kingdom. List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) List of coal ...
The largest consumer and importer of coal is China. China mines almost half the world's coal, followed by India with about a tenth. Australia accounts for about a third of world coal exports, followed by Indonesia and Russia. [5] Coal is largely held in the Earth in areas that it needs to be mined from, and is generally present in coal seams.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The coal mining communities, or coal towns of Raleigh County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were located in deep ravines that afforded direct access to the coal through the hillsides, allowing mined coal to be dropped or conveyed downhill to railway lines at the valley floor. [1] Many of ...