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Children were used in coal mines to dig ahead of the main miners and help clear out paths. Due to their smaller body size, kids could fit through spaces no adult man could. This led to rough conditions on the kids and the risk of cave ins and explosive gas was dangerous.
Trick question. There are still many coal mines in the world.
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most british coal mines are closing down because it is very harmful to the environment and the government cannot risk peoples lives just to make coal. Done by : Kennida Vanterpool (axa)
Over the industrial age in Britain, Wales had many coal mines, children and adults where forced to go down these mines to get coal and make money for their families. Now people in Wales just live normal lives. Shopping, working, eating, sleeping, etc...
Pit ponies were lowered down into coal mines to help haul the coal. By the mid 20th century, the ponies were replaced by mechanical devices.
There are 2 kinds of coal mine shafts-- slope or dug horizontally then down, or a vertical shaft dug nearly straight down. Some coal mines use both--a wide tunnel dug as a slope, then down. However, in the 1800s, they often crawled into a slope mine.Depth of either type, and for either bituminous coal or anthracite coal, can be 1,000 to 2,000 feet underground. Most mines also have labyrinths of tunnels throughout, which can go to different depths.
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they were far to dangerous as they were exploding, collapsing, and giving people diseases in the lungs causing death :D
Slope mining is a method of accessing valuable geological material, such as coal. A sloping access shaft travels downwards towards the coal seam. Slope mines differ from shaft and drift mines, which access resources by tunneling straight down or horizontally, respectively.
Here are two of the main categories of mining:Underground Mining - Underground modes of access include drift, slope, and shaft mining, and actual mining methods include longwall and room and pillar mining. Drift mines enter horizontally into the side of a hill and mine the coal within the hill. Slope mines usually begin in a valley bottom, and a tunnel slopes down to the coal to be mined. Shaft mines are the deepest mines; a vertical shaft with an elevator is made from the surface down to the coal.Surface Mining - Surface-mining methods include area, contour, mountaintop removal, and auger mining. Area mines are surface mines that remove shallow coal over a broad area where the land is fairly flat. Huge dragline shovels commonly remove rocks overlying the coal (called overburden).
they were the ones that were down the bottom of the pits actually cutting the coal and they would probably be fully grown men or strong young boys.