Mr Bevin, the then minister for Labour and National Service, introduced the scheme in response to an increasing shortage of labour in the coal mining industry.
Graham Morgan, chairman of Cinderford Regeneration Board, said some of the buildings left in the former coal mining area had "not been touched" since the mid-1960s.
Given the growing distaste for offshore drilling in the wake of the ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the coal mining group could receive added attention as a viable alternative.
Based on the pace of coal mining in the first six months of the year, 2012 production is on track to drop even lower to 1.015 billion tons for the full year.
Her industrial legacy in Wales, particularly the coal mining communities of the south Wales valleys, has drawn much debate.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
As for the Mining Boom III, the pick up in export volumes flowing from the surge in mining investment in iron ore, coal and liquid natural gas will start to get underway around 2014-15.
By comparison, the coal mining industry in all of Appalachia employs 31, 000 people, says the National Mining Association.
The prospects for coal in the U.S. have suffered lately and weighed on coal mining companies such as Alpha Natural Resources.
After all, advocates will argue, Washington has done similar favors in the past for the railroad and coal mining industries, not to mention its loan guarantees given to Chrysler in 1980.
Wayne Thomas said the rise in the price of coal and the quality of the anthracite in the local area had seen mining become more profitable in recent years and led to a "resurgence of interest".
Scottish Coal was the biggest surface mining supplier in Britain, and biggest coal firm in Scotland.
That is the point of the National Coal Mining Museum in Overton, about 13 miles south-west of Knottingley, on the site of the former Capstone colliery.
Union Pacific has its network well spread in the PRB region, which has witnessed an uptick in coal mining activity lately.
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In its heyday, during the productive coal mining years of the 1920s, the town boasted nearly 30, 000 residents.
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Mr Abbott kicked off his attack in the Hunter Valley, a coal-mining region of New South Wales, where he branded the tax a threat to coal's future.
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In the 1970s and 1980s we gradually came to accept the wholesale destruction of working communities in ship building, coal mining and textiles.
At the same time East Kalimantan, where Bayan operates, is considering plans to cap annual coal output in an effort to promote alternative energy and cut back on the damage coal mining has done to the environment.
"There's been coal mining in Bath for the past 500 years and it hasn't damaged anything, " he said.
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Although, by 1981, the proportion of Welsh employees working in mining and quarrying was just 3.8%, the coal industry still had a symbolic place at the heart of ideas of the Welsh nation.
The result is that even in West Yorkshire, where coal has been mined since the 13th century, coal mining is now a job like any other.
India banned commercial coal mining by private companies in the 70s when it nationalized all mines.
He then used the money to buy stakes in two coal-mining ventures in Indonesia.
The Bakries, backed by the independent non-executive directors, have offered to buy back Bumi Resources, leaving Bumi PLC with the Berau coal-mining assets in a deal that would leave shareholders with a loss of about 50% on their original investment.
Its three biggest rivals, mining twice as much coal in the state as Massey, were cited a collective 175 times.
There is no free lunch whether with coal mining or deep-water drilling, or for those who are honest, in the enormous underlying mining and chemical infrastructure needed to build vast arrays of wind and solar farms.
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Now it had a bulked-up mining division in a country that shovels the most coal in the world.
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It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, which ended in 2011.
The Company has interests in mining for aluminum, borax, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, silver, tin, uranium, zinc, titanium, dioxide feedstock, diamonds, talc and zircon.
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