mining excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth |
placer mining | mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging |
strip mining opencast mining | the mining of ore or coal from an open mine |
mining minelaying | laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment |
andrena andrenid mining bee | a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
mining geology | the branch of economic geology that deals with the applications of geology to mining |
mining company | a company that owns and manages mines |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
mining engineer | an engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines |
data mining | data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases, a way to discover new meaning in data |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |