Penambangan batu bara

Para penambang batu barang meninggalkan sebuah penambangan Amerika di akhir penggantian (April 1974)

Penambangan batu bara adalah proses penyarian batu bara dari tanah. Batu bara bernilai untuk kandungan energinya, dan, sejak 1880an, telah banyak dipakai untuk membangkitkan listrik. Industri-industri baja dan semen memakai batu bara sebagai bahan bakar untuk penyarian besi dari bijih besi dan untuk produksi semen.

Bacaan tambahan

• Daniel Burns. The modern practice of coal mining (1907)
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Pranala luar

• Glossary of Mining Terms
• Coal Mine exploration and preservation
• Abandoned Mine Research
• Methods of mining – overview and graphic of coal mining methods
• Coal Mining in the British Isles (Northern Mine Research Society)
• National Coal Mining Museum for England
• NIOSH Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program
• Purdue University – Petroleum and Coal
• University of Wollongong – educational resource on longwall mining
• Virtual coalmine Diarsipkan 2019-09-27 di Wayback Machine. – visual e-learning source with comprehensive display of long-wall face
• World Coal Institute – Coal Mining Diarsipkan 2006-10-07 di Wayback Machine.