coal face
Seam extraction point
The coal face is the exposed surface of coal at the working end of a mine, where extraction actually happens.
British English extends it figuratively to mean the place where real work gets done, as opposed to offices and boardrooms: nurses at the coal face of healthcare, teachers at the coal face.
The American equivalent is usually "front lines."
- mineOre excavation site
- pitFruit's hard seed
- seamJoined fabric edge
- collieryCoal extraction site
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
pickaxe · headlamp · dust · black · grime · black lung · extraction · hewn · underground · frontline · workers · toil · sweat · danger · shift · shift work · helmet · ore
- coalanthracite, bituminous, lignite, slack, culm
- Coal Miningminers, underground mines, colliery, strip mining, underground
- longwall miningshearer, chocks, coalface, gob, headgate
- coal mining termssplit seam, longwall
proximity to practical work
coal facehead office
Main administrative center
boardroom · ivory tower · corner office · back office · management
coal, face, coals, faces, faced, facing, facial, facially, deface