colliery
Noun
Meaning
The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
The coal trade.
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
Almost standard gauge * the Killingworth Colliery tramway, used maincheck.
He made reference to an incident at Oaks Colliery in Barnsley where both lamps were in use.
He started the work with several days of discussions with John Buddle, then overseer at Wallsend Colliery, other colliery owners and the Reverend John Hodgson, Vicar of Jarrow, both these men had experience of mining tragedies.
Britain's last deep coal mine, the Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in 2015.
A Hwange Colliery board member told NewsDay yesterday that Makore, who was suspended on Tuesday on allegations of insubordination, bribery and mismanagement of the State-linked mining firm, had offered to resign so he could walk away with an exit package.