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In the decades since, silica dust has become a major problem as Appalachian miners cut through layers of sandstone to reach less accessible coal seams in mountaintop mines where coal closer to the surface has long been tapped.
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Leah Willingham and Matthew Daly, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
In a string of towns running along a coal seam, the sparkle of small-town drag queens and kings colors a way of life rooted in soot, family and a conservative understanding of the world.
—Carolyn Kaster, Fortune, 3 July 2023
Origin Energy is one of three energy companies that operate coal seam gas wells in the region, and released a statement saying the gas was naturally occurring.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2016
What does the surface look like during a coal seam fire?
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011
Most of the coal fires in Borneo start when local farmers and plantation owners burn brush to clear land for planting, accidentally igniting a coal seam just under the surface.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
If a coal seam burns through the road, asphalt could crack open and sink, swallowing people and cars and unleashing a hellish scenario that might finally make people pay attention to what is going on beneath their feet.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
Bomfleur was looking at several such cocoons that had been collected in 2005, from a coal seam beneath an Antarctic mountain.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
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Leah Willingham and Matthew Daly, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
In a string of towns running along a coal seam, the sparkle of small-town drag queens and kings colors a way of life rooted in soot, family and a conservative understanding of the world.
—Carolyn Kaster, Fortune, 3 July 2023
Origin Energy is one of three energy companies that operate coal seam gas wells in the region, and released a statement saying the gas was naturally occurring.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2016
What does the surface look like during a coal seam fire?
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011
Most of the coal fires in Borneo start when local farmers and plantation owners burn brush to clear land for planting, accidentally igniting a coal seam just under the surface.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
If a coal seam burns through the road, asphalt could crack open and sink, swallowing people and cars and unleashing a hellish scenario that might finally make people pay attention to what is going on beneath their feet.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
Bomfleur was looking at several such cocoons that had been collected in 2005, from a coal seam beneath an Antarctic mountain.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide.
—Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
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1756, in the meaning defined above
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