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Appalachian coal region
The Appalachian coal region is a belt of coalfields in the eastern United States covering nearly 70,000 square miles, from Pennsylvania and Ohio to central Alabama.
Blaenavon
Blaenavon is a town at the head of the Afon Llwyd valley in South Wales, whose industrial landscape was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Bowen Basin
The Bowen Basin is a Permian sedimentary basin in central Queensland, Australia, containing the country's principal black coal deposits and forming the world's largest metallurgical coal export province.
Hwange, Zimbabwe
Hwange, formerly Wankie, is a coal-mining town in north-western Zimbabwe built around the colliery that has worked the Hwange coalfield since 1902, and the site of the country's largest power station.
Jharia
Jharia is a coalfield of about 400 square kilometers in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India, holding India's principal prime coking coal reserves and coal fires burning for over a century.
Jharia coalfield
The Jharia coalfield is a coal basin in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India, the country's principal source of prime coking coal, affected by fires burning underground for over a century.
Karaganda coal basin
The Karaganda coal basin (Қарағанды көмір бассейні) is a major hard-coal mining region around the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan, covering about 3,600 square kilometers and producing mainly coking coal for steelmaking.
Kuznetsk Basin
The Kuznetsk Basin, commonly shortened to Kuzbass (Кузбасс), is one of the largest coal-mining regions of Russia, in southern West Siberia, with coal first documented there in 1721.
Latrobe Valley
The Latrobe Valley is a brown coal region in Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia, whose open-cut mines and power stations have supplied most of the state's electricity for roughly a century.
Lublin Coal Basin
The Lublin Coal Basin (Lubelskie Zagłębie Węglowe, LZW) is a Carboniferous hard coal basin in eastern Poland, mined since 1982 at its only active mine, LW Bogdanka.
Raniganj coalfield
The Raniganj coalfield is a coal-mining region in Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India, and the country's oldest coalfield, with commercial mining begun in 1774.
Surat Basin
The Surat Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin covering about 300,000 km² of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, and is Queensland's principal coal seam gas province.
Tunguska Basin
The Tunguska Basin (Тунгусский угольный бассейн) is a vast coal basin in Siberia, Russia, holding about 3 trillion tons of coal and ranking among the world's largest by reserves.
Upper Silesian Coal Basin
The Upper Silesian Coal Basin, or USCB, is a large Carboniferous hard coal basin in southern Poland extending into the Czech Republic, one of Europe's most significant coal-producing regions.