How to Use coalfield in a Sentence
coalfield
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Yet its stories are not widely known, even one so dramatic as this battle in the Colorado coalfields.
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Robert Forrant,
The Conversation,
20 Apr. 2026
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Dusk falls on the town of Logan, West Virginia in the southern coalfields region of the state.
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Drew Kann,
CNN,
14 June 2017
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The state also took over Floyd and Breathitt counties, both located in the eastern coalfields.
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Sarah Jones,
The New Republic,
4 May 2018
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No place needed jobs more than the coalfields, where mechanization and cheap natural gas were putting miners out of work by the thousands.
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Washington Post,
13 Feb. 2020
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To earn a living, many local residents collect and sell coal from the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad.
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Time,
12 Jan. 2023
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Officials say the blast in the Marwar coalfields in Baluchistan province was caused by a buildup of methane gas in the mine.
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Washington Post,
5 May 2018
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Unclaimed horses have been spotted grazing on or near mines in the coalfields of Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains for years.
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Billy Kobin,
The Courier-Journal,
16 Jan. 2020
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Many of his clients in the impoverished coalfields of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia have fought to keep their disability checks.
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Bruce Schreiner,
The Seattle Times,
14 July 2017
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The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred.
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Sarah Miller,
The New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2021
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Due to its geological features, the Geiseltal area — once a coalfield — contains thousands of fossils and can give researchers a better idea of what life looked like millions of years ago.
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Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
6 July 2022
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Blasting occurs at the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad, in the state of Jharkhand, a common technique that uses explosives to break up the ground.
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Time,
12 Jan. 2023
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My view also includes the counties in the southern coalfields and other central Appalachian communities.
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Judith Feinberg,
STAT,
1 Dec. 2019
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This village named Bluefield was, in reality, surrounded by black bituminous coalfields.
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Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
21 July 2019
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Environmental groups have pleaded with the Biden administration to focus on the reclamation crisis in the coalfields.
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Ken Ward Jr.,
ProPublica,
1 Dec. 2023
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But the dynamics of religion and class forged by industrial mining have shaped central Appalachia’s culture in lasting ways particular to the coalfields.
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The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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The balance of power in the state swiftly shifted from the industrial centers of the North to the South, a region also helped by a growing number of miners for the burgeoning coalfields.
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Chris Stirewalt,
Fox News,
21 June 2017
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But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges.
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Dalton Bennett,
Washington Post,
10 Aug. 2022
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Amid coal’s steady decline, efforts are growing to repurpose former mines and lead the way to diversifying the state’s economy, creating jobs and cleaning up the environment, while helping to revive coalfield communities.
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Kris Maher,
WSJ,
28 Aug. 2021
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Strachey’s 1719 drawing of a section through the Somerset coalfield provided Smith’s first revelation of the layers of sedimentary rocks and their fossils.
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Jenny Uglow,
The New York Review of Books,
23 Feb. 2021
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Emilee Hackney is an eighth-generation Appalachian who grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia in a family so impoverished her parents occasionally raided her and her brother’s piggy banks to pay the mortgage and buy groceries.
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Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
28 June 2026
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