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 dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands—called coal forests—that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian times. However, many significant coal deposits are younger than this and originate from the Mesozoic and …

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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

CONFIDENTIAL ^^^ Bulgaria has indigenous lignite and coal but I is generally poorly endowed with domestic i n g . 3. Bulgaria has indigenous lignite and coal b u t is generally I poorly endowed with domestic


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

(paid for by industrial workers) electricity and coal supplied twice as cheap as to -State farms) . 000 : roubles worth of tableware (128.8/0). Coal Exports 3- A recent issue of the Katowice Party forms of cooperation in the field of hard and brown coal mining was signed in Warsaw on 24 August at the equipment and defined future volumes of Polish hard coal exports to Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately', no further be overhauled this year. The rower stations have coal stocks twice as large as last year,~suTficierit


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file containing documents concerning the Soviet population. Subjects covered in the file include the declining rate of population growth; the unwillingness of people to migrate to areas of labour …

explosions had tripled during the last decade in the coal industry, pirtly because of inadequate preparations


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Minister of liines in September 1981 for expanding coal production. A World Bank report puts Afghan reserves iron ore, copper, beryl, lead and zinc. Gas and coal are exploited in I Put M 0 1 1 h S S a l s v i e t e c o n o m y ( d e v e l o p m e n t of coal a n d the n a t u r a l gas i n d u s t r y ) . a p r o t o c o l for c o o p e r a t i o n in coal e x p l o i t a t i o n d u r i n g a v i s i t been over-fulfilled for the extraction of gas and coal and in the processing of carbamide and reinforced


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

are the following points of interest: (i) hard coal output was only 370 below the monthly average, ;. 1981 1981 average average - Dec ¿f Hard coal (xiOOOt) 13187 13941 13585 -3 Petroleum products to the government), or in the mines in Silesia (coal is Poland's main foreign exchange earner). There you expect? ; " what happened in the Silesian coal mines, in the ' w * * Is, on the rone hamtt that organized m about two weeks? the killing of the coal miners four days later? A : Less than that - either


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

consequences for the city of the European common-format passport; a European decision on the harmonisation of coal sales in the Common Market; European accession to the Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory

cJyuajL'l » EC DECISION ON HARMONISATION OF SALES OF COAL ^fj^ 1. Thank you for your letter of 24 September areas for economic purposes connected with the coal industry, nor to the area concerned "consisting December 1972 on alignment of prices for sales of coal in the common market (72/443/ECSC) THE COMMISSION the right to align must to this end be European Coal and Steel Community, and in c o ™ n e d to the since 1958 has shown that the common market for coal and steel under t^is means undertakings which


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

imported equipment have had to be shelved. Hard coal has had to be imported from the West to make up imported equipment have had to be shelved. Hard coal has had to be imported from the West to make up imported equipment have had to be shelved. Hard coal has had to be imported from the West to make up imported equipment have had to be shelved. Hard coal has had to be imported from the West to make up imported equipment have had to be shelved. Hard coal has had to be imported from the West to make up


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

ideas. We were also treated to the argument that as coal production, for example, was according to them,


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Shakespeare special- "It's quite simple. You take two coal scuttles, one ist. The Prague National Theatre been forbid- full. the other empty, and pour the coal from one den to go on performing his translation costly (depriving Hungary of at their elbow. needed coal), was also a political embarrassment The reality


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

A file containing documents concerning relations between NATO member states. Subjects covered in the file include anti-Americanism and opposition to nuclear weapons in Western Europe; the American decision not to …

contribution of conventional sources, particularly coal, and the need to investigate new and renewable the CDU's enthusiasm for supporting the domestic coal industry is likely to be less than that of an SPD


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