The Coal-mining Industry

Productivity Trends in the Coal Mining Industry in Canada

......................................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................v I. Literature Review of Studies on Productivity in the Coal Mining Industry ........................1 A. Anton (198...

Pneumoconiosis Trends in the US Construction Industry: A comparison between the coal mining and construction industries

This paper presents a comparison between the construction and the coal mining industries in the USA relating to the different types of pneumoconiosis (i.e. silicosis, asbestosis, Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), and byssinosis) in order to determine the relationships between each type of pneumoconiosis and the occupations in both industries that are mostly affected by the disease. In this st...

Coal Exploration and Mining

Dermatitis from solutions of sodium and calcium chloride in the coal-mining industry.

The harmful effects of salt on the skin were first described by Paracelsus (1493-1541, see Schwartz, Tulipan, and Peck, 1947), and there have been accounts since confirming this clinical observation in many industries. Ulcers of the legs occur in salt-miners (Ramazzini, 1700). Salt-water boils are found in shipwrecked sailors and deep-sea fishermen (Critchley, 1943); dock labourers carrying bag...

Can geosequestration save the coal industry?

There is archaeological evidence that coal was used in the Bronze Age, 3,000-4,000 years ago, in ancient China and in Roman Britain. But over the millennia, while human and animal labour and wood burning were the principal energy sources, coal played a minor role. In the pre-industrial age, reflected in the novels of Thomas Hardy and the paintings of the Old Masters, energy supply was local and...