https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao What are its effects? en-us 2017-02-18 00:11:24 UTC 2025-12-01 07:05:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ring.png colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154715840 Coal is the most mined material in the world. The U.S. alone mined about 90 billon tons of coal in the last year. Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. It is mined really everywhere around the world because it is so common. It is a fossil fuel, and contributes the most to air pollution and global warming.]]> 2017-02-18 00:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154715840 colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716185 In New South Wales black coal is mined near the eastern and western edges of the Sydney-Gunnedah Basin, where the seams are relatively close to the surface. Mining centred along the western edge, where most of the production is from underground mines, is in the Wollongong-Appin-Bulli area and in the Lithgow-Mudgee area. Mines near the eastern edge of the basin are spread along the Hunter Valley from Newcastle in the south to Muswellbrook in the north; many of these mines are open-cut. Further north mining also occurs at Yarrawonga near Gunnedah. Southern Coalfield mines such as Appin , Tahmoor and Metropolitan produce mainly coking coal.  Mines such as Ulan and Springvale in the Western Coalfield and Mandalong and Westside in the Newcastle Coalfield produce mainly thermal coal.  In the Hunter Valley Coalfield both soft coking and thermal coal products are produced from mines such as Hunter Valley Operations and Bulga.]]> 2017-02-18 00:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716185 colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716210 In Queensland, the coal industry has grown rapidly from the early 1970s. Most production has been of export coking coal from mines such as Goonyella and Kestrel in the Bowen Basin. However, thermal coal mines such as those at Newlands and Rolleston and mines near Brisbane have increased the proportion of steaming coal that is mined and exported. The Bowen Basin extends south from Collinsville to beyond Blackwater and Moura . A locally important thermal coal mine operates in the Callide Basin. Significant thermal coal resources occur in the Surat and Moreton Basins between Wandoan and Millmerran and mines are operating at Wilkie Creek , New Acland and Commodore . During the 1990s Pulverised Coal Injection (PCI) coals increased in importance with a number of PCI mines now operating in the Bowen Basin including Jellinbah East and Coppabella.]]> 2017-02-18 00:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716210 colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716265 Some children are exploited and forced to work in the coal mines. The conditions are terrible. Kids as young as us are forced to skip school and work in the mines. After climbing down about 200 feet of a shabby bamboo ladder, they crawl another 100 feet through a tiny rabbit hole with absolutely no light. Then they start working on the mines. But they have nothing to keep them safe. Not a hard hat or steel-toed boot in sight. One of the lucky survivors quoted, "People die all the time. You wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, and you may never come back. Many people have died this way."]]> 2017-02-18 00:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716265 colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716793 Not only this, but they get VERY  low pay. A family of six who all work in the mines can barely afford a small shack with no toilet, no running water, and it always crumbles during a rainstorm. The government of India is making laws to try and prevent child labor in the mines, but those with power and authority can worm there ways through laws.]]> 2017-02-18 00:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716793 colin_stewart1 https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716927 https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.AIC6wWcMFRx4pr_pT62zEwEsDH&w=247&h=164&c=7&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.7

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http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/stories/July2013/child-forced-labor-part-i-the-mining-industry.html
http://www.eia.gov/coal/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining]]> 2017-02-18 00:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/colin_stewart1/t4zsdphqsmao/wish/154716983