This is industrial Lanarkshire where for generations hard men have been reared at the coalface, bound together in friendships forged in a dirty and often dangerous working environment.
We have just spent millions on developing the new Stanley Main seam and we've been told we will mine just four of the 15 planned coalfaces.
The Nova Scotian miners didn't get paid until they started cutting the coal, so each day they'd begin their shift by running a mile and a half under the sea to the coalface.
Mr Wood said most of the damage was done in the 1970s when he was working as a coalface worker and tunneller.
Seismic surveys on land approaching the village revealed the faulting - supported by evidence of geological disturbance in a coalface being prepared for production.
Nearby, rusting away on the colliery surface, is some of the world's most modern mining hardware that has been salvaged from coalfaces and tunnels half-a-mile underground.
Pneumoconiosis Field Research had carried out research from 1954 to establish the relationship between dust exposure and the prevalence of pneumoconiosis among coalface workers.
Machines were brought into collieries from the 1920s to dig new roadways, ‘slice’ coal from the coalface and get the coal to the surface on a system of conveyor belts.
More than 200 miners returned to the coalface yesterday after a colliery's future was assured for the next 20 years.
The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school.
Bert became a miner on leaving school and went to work at Armthorpe, a militant pit, where he found himself working on the coalface.
The revolution in coalface working methods brought about by mechanised power loading techniques.
About 210 miners are still being employed to pump water from the mine, but the company insists that water has penetrated the coalface making the mine unsafe.
Phrases
at the coalface
Engaged in work at an active rather than a theoretical level in a particular field.
academics should work closely alongside the clinicians at the coalface
学者们应该同做实际工作的临床医生密切地配合。
Example sentencesExamples
The responsibility for changing the system lies with barristers, judges, solicitors, paralegals and all those who work at the coalface of the legal system, he said.
Clinical ethics committees cannot alone cope with the demands of ethically troubled doctors at the coalface.
What is missing from this otherwise comprehensive compendium is a practical guide for clinicians at the coalface.
There is a mismatch between what we believe and what is actually happening at the coalface of the economy.
At last the truth is out - and it's a truth all of us slugging away at the coalface while the fat cats dine out on our labours have suspected all along.
Unfortunately, their good work is undermined by a professional association that is more attuned to the elites than to those at the coalface.
I believe that a party leader must listen first and foremost to the parliamentary party because they are the people who are out working on the coalface.
The bigger we became, the further removed we were from our people at the coalface.
The company likes to drive up the share price but doesn't pass on the benefits to those at the coalface.
My full-time career on the Bolton Evening News ended at the week-end when I retired after nearly 39 years of honest toil at the coalface of provincial journalism.
Some of these leaders had never been at the coalface - they were university graduates and reached their positions through that path and I think it had a negative effect on the trade union movement as a whole.