Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to mining for coal; engaged in or connected with mining coal: as, the coal-mining districts; the coal-mining interests.

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Examples

  • Parania left Mosty Wielkie in what's now western Ukraine to join some coal-mining brothers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

    Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011

  • Parania left Mosty Wielkie in what's now western Ukraine to join some coal-mining brothers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

    Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011

  • The Obama administration is under pressure from Republicans and coal state Democrats because of what they say are policies hostile to the use of coal in power generation, including recently proposed Environmental Protection Agency curbs on mercury emissions from power plants, and an EPA move to block a large coal-mining project in Appalachia.

    U.S. Plans to Lease Wyoming Coal Lands Ryan Tracy 2011

  • Based on the updated information from Xinhua, the number of people who die in Chinese coal-mining accidents each day is in fact about nine.

    China's Way Forward 2009

  • When he arrived last year, he played for a team in a grimy coal-mining center in the north of the country.

    In China, NBA's Stephon Marbury is a hit 2011

  • Some of the greenhouse-gas plan's supporters say that imposing tariffs on the production of carbon is essential if the country is to avoid further catastrophes such as droughts, or the floods and extreme storms that devastated one of its major coal-mining and agricultural regions in Queensland state earlier this year.

    Australia's Risky Plan on Emissions Andrew Critchlow 2011

  • Thatcher might have argued that British coal-mining was no longer financial viable (I don ` t know the facts on that one).

    They Just Don’t Get It. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Merryweather was a coal-mining town, and, it being Sunday, it was reasonable to expect the men to be in town.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • The settlement comes amid a brewing battle between the Obama administration and the coal-mining industry over controversial mountaintop-removal mining, which involves blasting off mountain tops to get the coal beneath.

    Arch Coal Pays $4 Million to Settle Clean-Water Act Charges Tess Stynes 2011

  • Correction: The print version of this piece incorrectly reported that 250 people die each day in Chinese coal-mining accidents.

    China's Way Forward 2009

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