He worked as a coal-miner in his teens, was drafted in 1943, and spent much of the war driving a truck for a mess squadron in Arizona.
Shares in the London-listed Indonesian coal miner Bumi have surged after Indonesia's powerful Bakrie family proposed to split from the firm.
What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay?
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Shell aims to combine coal gasification with gas-to-diesel technology in an alliance with coal miner Anglo American.
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The 44-year-old son of a coal miner made his first million trading coal and coke (of the carbonaceous variety nothing untoward).
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Yesterday, rumors that U.K.-based miner Anglo-American may bid for U.S.-based coal-producer Walter Energy (WLT), spurred by The Times of London newspaper, resulted in a 21% jump in WLT shares.
Son of a coal miner, built his business in the mid-1990s by forging ties with then prime minister Viktor Yanukovych.
When asked what he wants to do when he grows up, 4-year-old Ben Sedgmer blurts out, "Coal miner!"
Foster, editor of a small daily in Shenandoah, Pa. who becomes outraged when a coal miner friend dies with his crew, the result of fire-damp (carbon dioxide asphyxiation).
Loaded with protein, carbohydrates and fiber, it was a healthy, satisfying reprieve from the 12-hour days a miner spent on his knees in a dark and unforgiving coal shaft.
Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every tonne that came out of his ground.
Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every ton that came out of his ground.
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