collieries
Underground coal operations
Collieries is the plural of colliery, a coal mine together with its buildings and equipment.
The word is primarily British: The Welsh valleys were once dotted with collieries.
A colliery encompasses not just the underground workings but the surface infrastructure—winding gear, processing facilities, and administrative buildings.
Ore extractors
- pitmenUnderground coal diggers
- hewersThose who chop wood
- puttersShort-range golf clubs
- deputiesAppointed subordinate representatives
overmen · shift · union · strike · wages · lodge · solidarity · workforce
Highest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- seamJoined fabric edge
- coalfaceActive mining surface
pithead · methane · coke · slag · spoil heap · tipple · washery · grading
Narrow vertical passage
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- pitFruit's hard seed
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
- aditHorizontal mine opening
drift · face · heading · longwall · cutting · hewing · blasting · drilling
Violent burst of energy
- collapseSudden structural failure
- floodingOverwhelming water accumulation
- gasFormless, expanding substance
- silicosisLung disease from dust
pneumoconiosis · black lung · subsidence · disaster · rescue · safety lamp · ventilation · inspection
Public exhibit space
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- landmarkNotable point of reference
- mining townSettlement serving ore extraction
memorial · restoration · tourism · legacy · interpretation · archive · oral history · commemoration
Mine shaft superstructure
- shearerOne who clips wool
- conveyor beltEndless loop transporter
- cageBarred confinement structure
- skipTo deliberately exclude
ventilation fan · pump · tramway · locomotive · washery · crusher · loader · dragline
miners
Ore extractors
deputies · overmen · shift · union · strike · wages · lodge · solidarity · workforce · canary
anthracite
Highest-grade coal variety
- bituminousContaining natural tar
- ligniteLow-rank sedimentary fuel
- seamJoined fabric edge
coalface · pithead · methane · coke · slag · spoil heap · tipple · washery · grading · fossil fuel
shaft
Narrow vertical passage
adit · drift · face · heading · longwall · cutting · hewing · blasting · drilling · conveyor
explosion
Violent burst of energy
- collapseSudden structural failure
- floodingOverwhelming water accumulation
- gasFormless, expanding substance
silicosis · pneumoconiosis · black lung · subsidence · disaster · rescue · safety lamp · ventilation · inspection · accident
museum
Public exhibit space
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- landmarkNotable point of reference
mining town · memorial · restoration · tourism · legacy · interpretation · archive · oral history · commemoration · listed building
headframe
Mine shaft superstructure
- shearerOne who clips wool
- conveyor beltEndless loop transporter
- cageBarred confinement structure
skip · ventilation fan · pump · tramway · locomotive · washery · crusher · loader · dragline
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, oil
- WalesCardiff, Anglesey, Welsh, Snowdon, Welsh dragon
- Welsh historyironworks, steelworks, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
- RuhrEssen, Dortmund, Krupp, steel mills, steelworks
- Schuylkill ValleyReading, Blue Mountain, anthracite, Hamburg, Valley Forge
collierieswind farms
Grouped turbines generating electricity
solar farms · hydroelectric plants · nuclear power stations · solar arrays · wind turbines
collieriesgold mines
Excavations for precious metal
diamond mines · salt mines · copper mines · oil wells · gas fields
coal, coalfield, coalmine, colliery, coalman, collier, coalyard, colliers