deep-mined
adjective
(Of coal) obtained from far below the surface of the ground, not from opencast mines.He ‘listened very carefully to our comments on the coal industry and took on board what we were saying about the need for deep-mined coal from the UK to remain a significant part of electricity generation mix’....
- Production of deep-mined coal fell from 204 million tons in 1942 to 175 millions in 1945, though manpower, 766,000 in 1939, had been stabilized at 710,000.
- For centuries, the wealth of Britain was built on deep-mined coal.
Derivatives
deep mining
- Veterans of deep mining call the open-cast workers ‘sunshine miners‘.
- In England about 6,000 people are still employed in deep mining and about 575 in Wales.
- However, the health risks associated with deep mining were becoming apparent.