coalfield
noun
coal·field ˈkōl-ˌfēld 
: a region rich in coal deposits
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The energy firm that owns the coalfield, DTEK Corp., also cited wartime restrictions on publishing details on strategic infrastructure. 
Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges. Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred. Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021 Amid coal’s steady decline, efforts are growing to repurpose former mines and lead the way to diversifying the state’s economy, creating jobs and cleaning up the environment, while helping to revive coalfield communities. Kris Maher, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2021 Strachey’s 1719 drawing of a section through the Somerset coalfield provided Smith’s first revelation of the layers of sedimentary rocks and their fossils. Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021 Arsenic and other harmful substances have been found in numerous wells dug in the Appalachian coalfields, the Ohio Valley ReSource reports. Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020 Meantime, like everywhere, life has changed for everyone in far eastern Kentucky, from southeast coalfields of Harlan to the once-booming industrial northeast city of Ashland along the Ohio River. Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2020 No place needed jobs more than the coalfields, where mechanization and cheap natural gas were putting miners out of work by the thousands. Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020 See More
Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coalfield, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges. Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 The Selby coalfield, also in the area, once employed three thousand five hundred people; today, Drax employs about seven hundred. Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021 Amid coal’s steady decline, efforts are growing to repurpose former mines and lead the way to diversifying the state’s economy, creating jobs and cleaning up the environment, while helping to revive coalfield communities. Kris Maher, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2021 Strachey’s 1719 drawing of a section through the Somerset coalfield provided Smith’s first revelation of the layers of sedimentary rocks and their fossils. Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021 Arsenic and other harmful substances have been found in numerous wells dug in the Appalachian coalfields, the Ohio Valley ReSource reports. Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020 Meantime, like everywhere, life has changed for everyone in far eastern Kentucky, from southeast coalfields of Harlan to the once-booming industrial northeast city of Ashland along the Ohio River. Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2020 No place needed jobs more than the coalfields, where mechanization and cheap natural gas were putting miners out of work by the thousands. Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1734, in the meaning defined above
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