coalpit
Underground carbon source
A coalpit is a mine where coal is extracted, or the shaft leading down to the coal seams.
The word is older and more common in British usage than American, where coal mine predominates: The village grew up around the coalpit.
Also spelled as two words: coal pit.
Narrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- seamJoined fabric edge
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
face · headgear · ventilation · extraction · winding · cage · adit · drift
Highest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- sedimentaryFormed from deposited material
- coalfieldMineral extraction region
outcrop · stratum · bedrock · fossilized · peat · deposit · basin · formation
Ore extractors
- pitmenUnderground coal diggers
- colliersCoal miners or transporters
- hewersThose who chop wood
- trapperOne who catches animals
union · strike · wages · shift · dangerous · accidents · silicosis · lamp
Tall industrial exhaust pipes
- foundryMetal casting facility
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- smelterOre-refining plant
ironworks · steelworks · industrialization · manufacturing · boiler · steam-engine · bunker · stockpile
Of a prim era
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
- terracedArranged in successive levels
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
shaft
Narrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- seamJoined fabric edge
gallery · face · headgear · ventilation · extraction · winding · cage · adit · drift · colliery
anthracite
Highest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- sedimentaryFormed from deposited material
coalfield · outcrop · stratum · bedrock · fossilized · peat · deposit · basin · formation
miners
Ore extractors
trapper · union · strike · wages · shift · dangerous · accidents · silicosis · lamp · canary
smokestacks
Tall industrial exhaust pipes
smelter · ironworks · steelworks · industrialization · manufacturing · boiler · steam-engine · bunker · stockpile · tipple
Victorian
Of a prim era
- nineteenth-centuryThe years 1801-1900
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
- terracedArranged in successive levels
coalpitquarry
Pit for extracting rock
open-pit mine · surface mine · strip mine · oil well · gas well
coalpitwind farm
Grouped turbines generating electricity
solar farm · hydroelectric dam · nuclear plant · solar panel array · wind turbine