Thomas Powell (1779–1863) was a Welsh

coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

owner who between 1829 and his death became one of the most successful. By 1862 he owned 16 mines which together produced over 700,000 tons of

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

, making them some of the richest sources in the world. His company has now evolved into

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Thomas (mine owner) Welsh businesspeople 1779 births 1863 deaths British businesspeople in the coal industry