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{{Short description|1959 coal mining accident in Pennsylvania, United States}} | type = [[Mining accident]] ...

...ttp://library.christchurch.org.nz/Kids/NZDisasters/Brunner.asp New Zealand Disasters – Brunner Mine], Christchurch City Libraries. Accessed 20 January 2008.</re The population was 1,144 in the 1956 census<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/brunner|en ...

...on|Any of three mining disasters in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada (1891, 1956, 1958)}} ...in [[Cumberland County, Nova Scotia]]. In the 1891 accident, 125 died; in 1956, 39 were killed; and in 1958, 75 miners were killed. ...

...1866. Westville, along with Stellarton, was once home to a thriving [[coal mining]] industry. At its peak, during World War I, Westville boasted three underg ...nderground mine, the Drummond pit, closed in the 1970s. Extensive open-pit mining on the Drummond and Acadia sites was carried out throughout the 1980s and 1 ...

...nting Office|location= Washington DC |pages=203–204 }}</ref> The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in [[Pocahontas, Virginia]] in 1883 <ref>{{cit ...ntly, [[Havaco, West Virginia|Havaco]] No. 9 mine explosion on January 15, 1956 claimed the lives of 15 coal miners. ...

Aspull was once a centre of mining and [[textile manufacture]], though little evidence of this can be seen in {{See also|List of mining disasters in Lancashire}} ...

...tai-itai disease]] || [[Toyama Prefecture]] || [[Cadmium]] salts || Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company || 1912 ...o Prefecture]] || [[Organomercury]] compounds || [[Chisso Corporation]] || 1956 ...

...the Republic of China officially established the Geological Section in the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry.<ref name="Andersson-1921">{{Cite we ...at operates under the China Geological Survey (CGS). It was established in 1956 and is headquartered in Beijing,<ref name="Chinese Academy of Geological Sc ...

...Act (Public Law 179), to deal with a wave of catastrophic [[Mining|mine]] disasters. The Bureau's mission was gradually expanded to include: ...uct of research to enhance the safety, health, and environmental impact of mining and processing of minerals and materials. ...

|place=Consol No. 9 [[mining|coal mine]] north of [[Farmington, West Virginia|Farmington]] and [[Manning ...re a [[room and pillar]] mine at the time of the disaster, while [[retreat mining]] had been completed in the brown areas.]] ...

{{Short description|Cataloging of environmental disasters}} This article is a '''list of environmental disasters'''. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by hu ...

{{Year in Canada|1956}} Events from the year '''1956 in Canada'''. ...

=== Coal mining === ...url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 5, 2018|title=Illinois Coal & Coal Mining, History & Genealogy - Coal Mines of Franklin County, Illinois|last=Hinton| ...

...ise of the loom.<ref name=Lloyd1967/> The same trends were soon evident in mining and eventually steel, shipbuilding, rail working and other industries. As o ...upational songs and industrial protest songs, which included narratives of disasters (particularly among miners), laments for conditions, as well as overtly pol ...

...the site of the [[Gresford disaster]], one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters, when 266 men died in an underground explosion on 22 September 1934. Gresford Colliery was the site of one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. The [[Gresford Disaster]] occurred on 22 September 1934, when 266 men died ...

...area by the early 1970s. The community is famous for both the [[Springhill Mining Disaster]] and being the childhood home of international recording star [[A |1956|7348 ...

...blisher=Province of Nova Scotia|access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref> Coal mining in the vicinity began as early as 1854 at Lingan and later at Low Point in |1956 ...

.../> In the second half of the 19th century the town developed due to [[coal mining]] and the textile industry.<ref name=um/><ref name=pwn/> In 1884 it suffere ...II|forced labour]] camps.<ref name=pwn/> Also during the war, the largest mining disaster in the town's history took place; 187 miners were killed.<ref name ...

{{For|a list organized by the number of fatalities|List of disasters in Canada by death toll}} This '''list of disasters in Canada''' includes major [[disaster]]s (arranged by date), either [[Man ...