A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where

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 ...

is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological. A coalfield often groups the seams of coal, railroad companies, cultural groups, and watersheds and other geographical considerations. At one time the coalfield designation was an important category in business and industrial discussions. The terminology declined into unimportance as the 20th century progressed, and was probably only referred to by a few small railroads and history buffs by the 1980s. Renewed interest in industrial heritage and coal mining history has brought the old names of the coalfields before a larger audience.

Australia

New South Wales

*Gunnedah Basin coalfields *Hunter Valley coalfields *

South Maitland coalfields The South Maitland coalfields was the most extensive coalfield in New South Wales until the great coal mining slump of the 1960s. It was discovered by Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson's party when they were engaged in an exploratory visit to the ...

*Sydney Basin coalfields

Queensland

*Bowen Basin coalfields *Galilee Basin coalfields *Surat Basin coalfields *Walloon coalfields

Victoria

*Latrobe Valley coalfields

Western Australia

*Collie coalfields

Belgium

Borinage Coalfield The Borinage () is an area in the Walloon province of Hainaut in Belgium. The name derives from the coal mines of the region, ''bores'' meaning mineshafts. In French the inhabitants of the Borinage are called Borains. The provincial capital M ...

(Middle Ages – 1973) * Campine Coalfield (1917–1992) * Centre Coalfield (Middle Ages – 1973) *

Charleroi Coalfield Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

(Middle Ages – 1984) * Liege Coalfield (Middle Ages – 1980)

Canada

* Beersville Coalfield * Comox Coalfield * Crowsnest Coalfield * Cypress Coalfield *

Elk Valley Coalfield The elk (''Cervus canadensis''), also known as the wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia. The common ...

* Estevan Coalfield * Flathead Coalfield *

Hat Creek Coalfield The Hat Creek is a large coal field located in the west of Canada in British Columbia. Hat Creek represents one of the largest coal reserve in Canada having estimated reserves of 10 billion tonnes of coal Coal is a combustible black or br ...

* Howley Coalfield *

Inverness Coalfield Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histor ...

Joggins River Herbert Coalfield Joggins is a rural community located in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. On July 7, 2008 a 15-km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List.Mabou Coalfield * Merritt Coalfield * Minto Coalfield *

Nanaimo Coalfield Nanaimo ( ) is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 99,863, and it is known as "The Harbour City." The city was previously known as the "Hub City," which w ...

* Onakawana Coalfield *

Pictou Coalfield Pictou ( ; Canadian Gaelic: ''Baile Phiogto'') is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Located on the north shore of Pictou Harbour, the town is approximately 10 km (6 miles) north of the larger town of New Glasg ...

* Princeton Coalfield * St. George Coalfield * St Rose-Chimney Corner Coalfield * Spring Hill Coalfield * Sydney Coalfield * Taber Coalfield * Tulameen Coalfield *

Willow Bunch Coalfield Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...

* Wood Mountain Coalfield CoalDNLBF

Chile

* Lirquén Coalfield,

Penco Penco (Mapudungun: See (''Pen''), Water (''Ko'')), is a Chilean city and commune in Concepción Province, Bío Bío Region on the Bay of Concepción. Founded as the city of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo ('beginning of the new extreme') on Febru ...

, Bío Bío Region * Puchoco Coalfield, Coronel, Bío Bío Region * Lota Coalfield,

Lota Lota may refer to: Places * Lota (crater), a crater on Mars * Lota, Chile, a city and commune in Chile * Lota, Punjab, village in Pakistan *Lota, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia **Lota railway station, a station on the Cleveland line * ...

, Bío Bío Region * Curanilahue Coalfield,

Curanilahue Curanilahue () is a Chilean commune and city in Arauco Province, Biobío Region. Its name comes from Mapundungun "Cura", meaning "Stone", and "Nilahue" meaning "Ford". Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Instit ...

, Bío Bío Region * Boca Lebu Coalfield, Lebu, Bío Bío Region * Mulpún Coalfield, Mafil,

Los Ríos Region The Los Ríos Region (Spanish: ''Región de Los Ríos'', , ''Region of the Rivers'') is one of Chile's 16 regions, the country's first-order administrative divisions. Its capital is Valdivia. It began to operate as a region on October 2, 2007 ...

* Loreto Coalfield,

Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (; historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. The city was officially renamed as Magallanes in 1927, but in 1938 it was changed back to "Punta Are ...

Magallanes Region The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region ( es, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and second lea ...

Colombia

Colombia has the largest coal reserves in Latin America and is a major exporter. *

Cerrejón Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated. At over the mine is one of the largest of its type, the largest in Lati ...

, in

La Guajira La Guajira () is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, on the Caribbean Sea and bordering Venezuela, at the northernmost tip of South America. The capital city of the departm ...

France

* Aumance Coalfield * Blanzy Coalfield * Brassac Coalfield * Carmaux Coalfield * Champagnac Coalfield * Dauphiné Coalfield * Decazeville Coalfield * Epinac Coalfield * Gard Coalfield * Hérault Coalfield * Loire Coalfield *

Lorraine Coalfield Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gra ...

(1820–2004) * La Machine Coalfield * Messeix Coalfield *

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield Nord-Pas-de-Calais (); pcd, Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Cal ...

(1852–1990) *

Provence Coalfield Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border ...

* St Eloi Coalfield

Germany

* Aachen Coalfield :*

Erkelenz Coalfield Erkelenz (, li, Erkelens ) is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany that lies southwest of Mönchengladbach on the northern edge of the Cologne Lowland, halfway between the Lower Rhine region and the Lower Meuse. It is a medium-sized town ...

(1914–1997) :* Inde Coalfield (Middle Ages – 1944) :* Wurm Coalfield (Middle Ages – 1992) * Ibbenbüren Coalfield (Middle Ages – 2018) * Lugau-Oelsnitz Coalfield (1844–1971) * Ruhr Coalfield (Middle Ages – 2018) *

Saar Coalfield Saar or SAAR has several meanings: People Given name *Saar Boubacar (born 1951), Senegalese professional football player * Saar Ganor, Israeli archaeologist *Saar Klein (born 1967), American film editor Surname * Ain Saar (born 1968), Est ...

(Middle Ages – 2012) *

Zwickau Coalfield Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ...

(Middle Ages – 1979)

Great Britain

England

Bristol and Somerset Coalfield Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city, Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Glouces ...

Bristol Coalfield The Bristol Coalfield is a geologically complex coalfield in the west of England. Comprising the coal-bearing rocks arranged around the Coalpit Heath Syncline and Kingsdown Anticline, it extends beneath the eastern parts of the city of Bristol a ...

Cheadle Coalfield The Cheadle Coalfield is a coalfield in the United Kingdom. Centred on the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire and its outlying villages it lies to the east of Stoke-on-Trent and the much larger North Staffordshire Coalfield. The area has been mined fo ...

* Clee Hills Coalfield *

Coalbrookdale Coalfield The Coalbrookdale Coalfield is a coalfield in Shropshire in the English Midlands. It extends from Broseley in the south, northwards to the Boundary Fault which runs northeastwards from the vicinity of The Wrekin past Lilleshall. The former c ...

* Cumberland Coalfield * Durham Coalfield *

East Staffordshire Coalfield East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

Forest of Dean Coalfield The Forest of Dean Coalfield, underlying the Forest of Dean, in west Gloucestershire, is one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles, although intensive mining during the 19th and 20th centuries has had enormous influence on the landscape, ...

* Ingleton Coalfield * Kent Coalfield *

Lancashire Coalfield The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. The Romans may have been the f ...

Burnley Coalfield The Burnley Coalfield is the most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield. Surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington, it is separated from the larger southern part by an area of Millstone Grit that forms the Rossendale anticli ...

:* South Lancashire Coalfield ::*

Manchester Coalfield The Manchester Coalfield is part of the South Lancashire Coalfield, the coal seams of which were laid down in the Carboniferous Period. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the begin ...

::*Oldham Coalfield ::*St Helens Coalfield ::*Wigan Coalfield * Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield * Midgeholme Coalfield *

Newent Coalfield Newent (; originally called "Noent") is a market town and civil parish about 10½ miles (17 km) north-west of Gloucester, England. Its population was 5,073 at the 2001 census, rising to 5,207 in 2011, The population was 6,777 at the 2021 Census. ...

* Oxfordshire-Berkshire Coalfield *

North Staffordshire Coalfield The North Staffordshire Coalfield was a coalfield in Staffordshire, England, with an area of nearly , virtually all of it within the city of Stoke on Trent and the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, apart from three smaller coalfields, Shaffalong a ...

* Northumberland Coalfield *

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The tradition ...

* Oswestry Coalfield * Shrewsbury Coalfield * Shropshire Coalfield * Somerset Coalfield * South Staffordshire Coalfield **

Cannock Chase Coalfield Cannock Chase Coalfield is a coalfield in Staffordshire, England, lying directly under Cannock Chase. It forms a rough triangle between Brereton, Essington and Pelsall. The Cannock Chase Coalfield lies just to the north of the South Staffordsh ...

Warwickshire Coalfield The Warwickshire Coalfield extends between Warwick and Tamworth in the English Midlands. It is about from north to south and its width is around half that distance. Its western margin is defined by the 'Western Boundary Fault'. In the northeast ...

Wyre Forest Coalfield Wyre may refer to: Places * Wyre, Orkney, an island in Scotland * Borough of Wyre, a local government district in Lancashire, England ** Wyre (UK Parliament constituency) * River Wyre, a river in Lancashire, England * Wyre Forest, a woodland i ...

Yorkshire Coalfield Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

:* South Yorkshire Coalfield

Scotland

* Ayrshire Coalfield :* Central Ayrshire Coalfield :* South Ayrshire Coalfield *

Brora Coalfield The Brora Coalfield is a coalfield on the east coast of Sutherland in northern Scotland. The 'Brora Main' is a 1m to 1.5m thick seam which has been mined in the Brora area. It is unusual amongst British coalfields in being of Jurassic age rathe ...

Canonbie Coalfield The Canonbie Coalfield is a small and largely concealed coalfield at Canonbie in the south of Scotland. A comprehensive survey by Peach and Horne was published in 1903. Canonbie colliery was worked until 1920, and another mine at Archerbeck conti ...

* Central Coalfield * Clackmannan Coalfield * Dailly Coalfield *

Douglas Coalfield Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking * Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil ...

Fife Coalfield The Fife Coalfield was one of the principal coalfields in Scotland. Over fifty collieries were in operation at various times between the middle of the nineteenth century and the closure of the last pit in 1988. The coalfield extended across the so ...

:* Central Fife Coalfield :* East Fife Coalfield :* West Fife Coalfield * Lanarkshire Coalfield * Lothians Coalfield * Machrihanish Coalfield *

Midlothian Coalfield The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh. It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal Coal ...

* Northeast Stirlingshire Coalfield *

Sanquhar Coalfield Sanquhar ( sco, Sanchar, gd, Seanchair) is a village on the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, north of Thornhill and west of Moffat. It is a former Royal Burgh. It is notable for its tiny post office, established in 1712 and con ...

* Scremerston Coalfield

Wales

Anglesey Coalfield The Anglesey Coalfield is a minor British coalfield. Although it is situated in north-west Wales, this isolated coalfield on Anglesey is not usually considered to form a part of the North Wales Coalfield The North Wales Coalfield comprises the ...

North Wales Coalfield The North Wales Coalfield comprises the Flintshire Coalfield in the north and the Denbighshire Coalfield in the south. It extends from Point of Ayr in the north, through the Wrexham area to Oswestry in Shropshire in the south. A much smaller ...

Denbighshire Coalfield The Denbighshire Coalfield in the historic county of Denbighshire in north-east Wales is one of the smaller British coalfields. It extends from near Caergwrle in the north, southwards through Wrexham, Ruabon and Rhosllannerchrugog to Chirk in the s ...

Flintshire Coalfield The Flintshire Coalfield in north-east Wales is one of the smaller British coalfields. It is in the county of Flintshire and extends from the Point of Ayr in the north, along the Dee Estuary through Connah's Quay to Caergwrle in the south. A smal ...

Pembrokeshire Coalfield The Pembrokeshire Coalfield in West Wales is one of the smallest British coalfields, but continuously worked from the 14th to 20th centuries. The main coalfield extends across south Pembrokeshire from Saundersfoot on Carmarthen Bay westwards to B ...

South Wales Coalfield The South Wales Coalfield ( cy, Maes glo De Cymru) extends across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen. It is rich in coal deposits, espe ...

India

South Eastern Coalfields South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is the largest coal producing company of India. It is a "Miniratna" Company, and one of eight fully owned subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. The company has its headquarter at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, In ...

Chirimiri Coalfield Chirimiri Coalfield is located in manendragarh-chirmiri-bharatpur district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the valley of the Hasdeo River, a tributary of the Mahanadi. Other coalfields There are several other coalfields in the region. Ko ...

Daltonganj Coalfield Daltonganj Coalfield is located in Palamu district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview There are three coalfields in the valley of the North Koel River North Koel River flows through the Indian state of Jharkhand. Course The North K ...

Deoghar Coalfield Deoghar (pronounced ''Devaghar'') is a major city in Jharkhand, India. It is a holy sacred place of Hinduism. It is one of the 12 ''Jyotirlinga''s sites of Hinduism (Baidyanath Temple). The sacred temples of the city make this a place for pil ...

* Delhi-Jaipur Coalfield *

East Bokaro Coalfield East Bokaro Coalfield is located in Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview In 1917, L.S.S. O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: “Near the western boundary of Jharia field is th ...

* Ib Valley Coalfield *

Jharia Coalfield Jharia coalfield is a large coal field located in the east of India in Jharia, Jharkhand. Jharia represents the largest coal reserves in India having estimated reserves of 19.4 billion tonnes of coking coal. The coalfield is an important contribut ...

Jhilimili Coalfield Jhilimili Coalfield is located in Surguja district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Geography Jhilimili Coalfield is a part of Central India Coalfields. The latter is spread over the districts of Surguja, Koriya (both in Chhattisgarh), Shahdol ...

Kamptee Coalfield Kamptee Coalfield is located in Nagpur district in the Vidarbha region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The coalfield Coalfieds in the Nagpur region are Kamptee, Bokhara and Umrer. Kamptee Coalfield lies north of Kanhan railway station in Na ...

Korba Coalfield Korba Coalfield is located in Korba district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the basin of the Hasdeo River, a tributary of the Mahanadi. The coalfield Korba Coalfield is located between latitudes 220 15’ N and 220 30’ N and longitud ...

* Makum Coalfield * Mand Raigarh Coalfield * Namchik-Namphuk Coalfield *

North Karanpura Coalfield North Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Chatra and Latehar districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: "Near the wes ...

* Pench Kanhan Coalfield *

Rajmahal coalfield The Rajmahal Coalfield is a large coal field located in the east of India in Jharkhand. Geography Location Rajmahal coalfield is centred around . Area of Operations Five relatively small coal basins – Hura, Chuperbhita, Pachwara, Mahuagarhi ...

Ramgarh Coalfield Ramgarh Coalfield are located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: “Near the western boundary of Jharia field is th ...

Raniganj Coalfield Raniganj Coalfield is primarily located in the Asansol and Durgapur subdivisions of Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal. It spreads over to the neighboring districts of Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and to Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. History ...

* Singareni Coalfield * Singrauli Coalfield *

Sohagpur Coalfield Sohagpur Coalfield is located in Shahdol district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in the basin of the Son River. It is the biggest coalfield in the state of Madhya Pradesh. History Coal was discovered in this region, first in Sohagpur Co ...

South Karanpura Coalfield South Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ramgarh district Ramgarh district is one of the 24 districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It was also a military district during the British Regime, referred to then as Ramgarh district. Introduc ...

Talcher Coalfield Talcher Coalfield is located in Angul district in the Indian state of Odisha, in the valley of the Brahmani. The coalfield According to Geological Survey of India, the Talcher Coalfield has reserves of 38.65 billion tonnes, the highest in Ind ...

* Umaria Coalfield * Wardha Valley Coalfield *

West Bokaro Coalfield West Bokaro Coalfield is located mostly in Ramgarh district and partly in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview In 1917, L.S.S.O’Malley described the coalfields in the upper reaches of the Damodar as follows: "Near the ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

Hokkaidō is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

* Ishikari coalfield * Kayanuma coalfield * Kushiro coalfield * Rumoi coalfield * Tenpoku coalfield

Honshū , historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island sepa ...

* Jōban coalfield * Omine coalfield * Ube coalfield

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...

* Amakusa coalfield * Chikuhō coalfield *

Miike coalfield , also known as the , was the largest coal mine in Japan,Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) ''The Japanese city'p.181University Press of Kentucky Retrieved January 2012. located in the area of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. In 19 ...

* Nishisonogi coalfield

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...

* kapuka *

Rotowaro Rotowaro was once a small coal mining township approximately 10 km west of Huntly in the Waikato region of New Zealand. The town was built especially for miners houses, but was entirely removed in the 1980s to make way for a large opencast ...

* Stockton

The Netherlands

* Limburg Coalfield (Middle Ages – 1974) * Peel Coalfield (1955–1962)

Pakistan

Thar Coalfield The Thar coalfield is located in Thar Desert, Tharparkar District of Sindh province in Pakistan. The deposits—16th-largest coal reserves in the world, were discovered in 1991 by Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United States Agency ...

Poland

Lower Silesia Coalfield Lower may refer to: *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England See also

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* Lublin Coalfield *

Upper Silesian Coal Basin The Upper Silesian Coal Basin ( pl, Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, cs, Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the Czech Republic.Ermelo Coalfield Ermelo may also refer to: * Ermelo, Mpumalanga Ermelo () is the educational, industrial and commercial town of the 7,750 km2 Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga province, Republic of South Africa. It is both a mixed agriculture a ...

Highveld Coalfield The Highveld (Afrikaans: ''Hoëveld'', where ''veld'' means "field") is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1500 m, but below 2100 m, thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east o ...

Klip River Coalfield Klip may refer to: * KLIP, a radio station licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States * "Klip" (song), a 2016 song by Jimilian * Klip River, Gauteng, South Africa * Klip River (KwaZulu-Natal) The Klip River is a main tributary of the Tug ...

Utrecht Coalfield Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Ne ...

* Waterberg Coalfield *

Witbank Coalfield Witbank (), officially Emalahleni, is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the Emalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for "white ridge", and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wa ...

Ukraine

* Donets Coalfield, sometimes known by its misnomer Donetsk Coalfield *Lviv-Volhynian Coalfield *Dnieper Coalfield (lignite)

United States

Alabama

* Warrior Coalfield * Cahaba Coalfield * Coosa Coalfield * Lookout Mountain Coalfield *

Sand Mountain Coalfield Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of s ...

Alaska

* Nenana Coalfield

Arkansas

* Arkansas Valley Coalfield

Colorado

* Book Cliffs Coalfield * Boulder-Weld Coalfield *

Canyon City Coalfield A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...

* Colorado Springs Coalfield * Crested Butte Coalfield * Dan Forth Hills Coalfield *

Durango Coalfield Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

* Grand Hogback Coalfield * Grand Mesa Coalfield * North Park Coalfield * Nucla Naturita Coalfield * Pagosa Springs Coalfield * Somerset Colorado Coalfield * South Park Coalfield *

Trinidad Coalfield Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

* Yampa Coalfield

Illinois

* Harrisburg Coalfield *

Southern Illinois Southern Illinois, also known as Little Egypt, is the southern third of Illinois, principally along and south of Interstate 64. Although part of a Midwestern state, this region is aligned in culture more with that of the Upland South than the Mi ...

Indiana

Southwestern Indiana Southwestern Indiana is an 11-county region of southern Indiana, United States located at the southernmost and westernmost part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the region's combined population is 474,251. Evansville, Indiana's third-largest c ...

Iowa

* Appanoose-Wayne Coalfield * Eldora Coalfield * Fort Dodge Coalfield *

Walnut Creek Coalfield A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a true b ...

Kansas

* Pittsburg-Weir Coalfield

Kentucky

* Cicinnatti-Southern Coalfield * Cumberland Gap Coalfield * Elkhorn Coalfield * Harlan Coalfield *

Hazard Coalfield A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would allow them, even just theoretically, to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value. The probabi ...

* Jellico Coalfield * Kenova Coalfield * Paintsville Coalfield * Thacker Coalfield * West Kentucky Coalfield

Maryland

* Cassellman Coalfield * Georges Creek Coalfield * Lower Youghiogheny Coalfield *

Upper Potomac Coalfield Upper may refer to: * Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found fo ...

* Upper Youghiogheny Coalfield

North Carolina

* Dan River Coalfield * Deep River Coalfield

Ohio

* Amsterdam-Salineville Coalfield * Cambridge Coalfield * Coshocton Coalfield * Crooksville Coalfield * Federal Creek Coalfield *

Goshen Coalfield The land of Goshen is the Hebrew name of an area in the Nile delta in Ancient Egypt. Goshen may also refer to: Places United States Cities and towns *Goshen, Alabama *Goshen, Arkansas *Goshen, California *Goshen, Connecticut *Goshen, Georgia *Gos ...

* Hocking Coalfield * Ironton Coalfield * Jackson Coalfield * Lisbon Coalfield *

Massillion Coalfield Massillon is a city in Stark County, Ohio, Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio, approximately west of Canton, Ohio, Canton, south of Akron, and south of Cleveland. The population was 32,146 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Mass ...

* Meigs Creek Coalfield * Palmyra Coalfield *

Pittsburgh No. 8 Coalfield Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

* Pomeroy Coalfield

Oklahoma

Arkoma Basin Coalfield Arkoma is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Fort Smith metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,989 at the 2010 census, a dec ...

Northeastern Shelf Coalfield The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...

* Oklahoma Coalfield

Oregon

Coos Bay Coalfield Coos may refer to: People * Cowasuck, also known as Cowass or Coös, an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America *Coos people, an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau in Oregon * Confederated Tribes of Coos, Low ...

Pennsylvania

* Anthracite Coalfield (

Coal Region The Coal Region is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is known for being home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated reserve of seven billion short tons. The region is typically defined as compris ...

) *

Beaver Coalfield Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are ...

* Bennetts Branch Coalfield * Bernice Coalfield * Black Lick Coalfield (aka Nanto Glo Coalfield) * Blossburg Coalfield * Broad Top Coalfield *

Butler Coalfield A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantries, pantry ...

* Cameron Coalfield * Clarion Coalfield * Clearfield Coalfield *

Connellsville Coalfield The Connellsville Coalfield is located in Fayette County and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, between the city of Latrobe and the small borough of Smithfield, and is sometimes known as the Connellsville Coke Field. This is because the section ...

* Freeport Coalfield * Georges Creek Coalfield *

Indian Valley Coalfield Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

* Indiana Coalfield * Irwin Gas Coalfield * Keating Coalfield * Kittanning Coalfield * Klondike Coalfield *

Ligonier Coalfield Ligonier may refer to: People * Ligonier (surname) * Earl Ligonier, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain Places in the United States * Ligonier, Indiana * Ligonier, Pennsylvania * Ligonier Township, Pennsylvania * Fort Ligonier, a Britis ...

Low Grade Division Coalfield Low or LOW or lows, may refer to: People * Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low Places * Low, Quebec, Canada * Low, Utah, United States * Lo Wu station (MTR code LOW), Hong Kong; a rail station * Salzburg Airport (ICAO airport code: LO ...

* Mercer Coalfield * Meyersdale Coalfield * Moshannon Coalfield * Mountain Coalfield *

Pittsburgh Coalfield The Pittsburgh Coalfield (Pittsburgh Coal Region) is the largest of the Western Pennsylvania coalfields. It includes all or part of Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania. Coal has been mined in Pitts ...

* Punxsutawney Coalfield *

Ralston Coalfield Ralston may refer to: Place names United States *Ralston, California *Ralston, Iowa *Ralston, Nebraska *Ralston, Oklahoma *Ralston, Wyoming * Mount Ralston in the Sierra Nevada of California *Ralston Creek (Colorado) *Ralston Hall, Belmont, Califo ...

* Shawmut Coalfield * Snowshoe Coalfield * Somerset Pennsylvania Coalfield *

Westmoreland Coalfield Westmoreland or Westmorland may refer to: Places *Westmoreland County, New South Wales, Australia *Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada *Westmorland Parish, New Brunswick, Canada *Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica *Westmorland, New Zealand, a subu ...

Windber Coalfield Windber is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, about south of Johnstown. It was at one time a place of industrial activities which included coal mining, lumbering, and the manufacture of fire brick. In 1897, the community ...

Tennessee

* Cumberland Gap Coalfield * Jellico Coalfield * Lafollette Coalfield *

Rockwood Coalfield Rockwood may refer to: Places Canada * Rockwood, Manitoba, rural municipality ** Rockwood (electoral division), former provincial electoral division ** Rockwood, Winnipeg, a neighbourhood * Rockwood, the main community in Guelph/Eramosa townshi ...

* Soddy Coalfield * Wartburg Coalfield

Utah

* Blacktail Coalfield * Book Cliffs Coalfield * Castlegate Coalfield * Coalville Coalfield * Emery Coalfield * Harmony Coalfield *

Henry Mountains Coalfield Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal ...

* Kaiporonitis Plateau Coalfield * Kolob Plateau Coalfield * Sunnyside Coalfield * Teton Basin Coalfield * Vernal Coalfield *

Wasatch Plateau The Wasatch Plateau is a plateau located southeast of the southernmost part of the Wasatch Range in central Utah. It is a part of the Colorado Plateau. Geography The plateau has an elevation of and includes an area of . Its highest point in the ...

Virginia

* Buchanan Coalfield * Clinch Valley Coalfield *

Pocahontas Coalfield Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County/ McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia ...

* Richmond Coalfield * Southwestern Coalfield (Big Stone Gap Coalfield) *

Valley Coalfield A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

(anthracite)

West Virginia

* Elkins Coalfield * Fairmont Coalfield * Greenbrier Coalfield * Kanawha Coalfield * Logan Coalfield * Meadow Branch Coalfield (anthracite) * New River Coalfield *

Panhandle Coalfield The Panhandle Coalfield is a coalfield located in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel. Mining is primarily in the Pittsburgh coal seam, sometimes called the No. 8 seam, which is of a st ...

Williamson Coalfield Williamson may refer to: Places *Williamson, Arizona *Williamson, Georgia * Williamson, Illinois *Williamson, Iowa *Williamson, New York, a town in Wayne County, New York. *Williamson (CDP), New York, a hamlet and census-designated place in Wayne ...

* Winding Gulf Coalfield

Wyoming

* Bighorn Coalfield * Black Hills Coalfield *

Goshen Hole Coalfield The land of Goshen is the Hebrew name of an area in the Nile delta in Ancient Egypt. Goshen may also refer to: Places United States Cities and towns *Goshen, Alabama *Goshen, Arkansas *Goshen, California *Goshen, Connecticut *Goshen, Georgia *Gos ...

* Green River Coalfield * Hams Fork Coalfield * Hanna Coalfield * Jackson Hole Coalfield * Powder River Coalfield (aka Gillette Coalfield) * Rock Creek Coalfield * Wind River Coalfield

References

* * * * * * *Lesher, C.E. State of Kentucky – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of West Virginia and Part of Maryland – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of Ohio – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of Pennsylvania – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of Virginia – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of Tennessee – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919 *Lesher, C.E. State of Alabama and Part of Georgia – Coalfields and Producing Districts (Map). Scale 1:1,000,000. Washington D.C. U.S. Geological Survey. 1919

Notes

External links

Coal Camp USA: Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
* ttp://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines/coal/maps/index.html Online mapping of Coal Mining sites in the British Isles (Northern Mine Research Society) {{DEFAULTSORT:Coalfields List of coalfields Geography-related lists