10 examples of coalfields in sentences

And all this when she has lost the Saar coalfields and is faced with the threatening situation in Upper Silesia.

" An important feature of the coal industry, which recent events have brought into sharp prominence, is the great diversity of conditions between different coalfields and different collieries.

In this respect also one coalfield differs greatly from another.

In the western theatre of war the fighting has centred largely round the Franco-Belgian Coalfield, on or near which stand on both sides of the frontier many industrial towns.

We shall see," replied Mr. Selincourt, then plunged into talk about the resources of the immediate neighbourhood, the possibilities of vast coalfields underlying the forest lands, of minerals lurking in barren hillsides, and many other things.

There is a touch of imagination, almost of romance, in the appointment of his successor, the redoubtable Lord Rhondda, who as "D.A." was alternately the bogy and idol of the Welsh miners, and who, after being the head of the greatest profit-making enterprise in the Welsh coalfields, is now summoned to carry on war against the profiteers in the provision trade.

In this manner, the rich Manero corn country, and the coalfields of Illawarra, might be brought into connection with Sydney, and a prodigious development imparted to the whole colony.

Though situated on the same coalfield, it is a more pleasing-looking place than its neighbour Radstock.

It is now the metropolis of the Somerset coalfield.

The French and Belgian coalfields are being worked to the utmost, together with the iron mines at Longwy and Brieux.

10 examples of  coalfields  in sentences