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| FOSSIL FUELS - COAL |
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| WHERE DOES COAL COME FROM? |
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| Coal is mined from deep underground, although sometimes it is found relatively near the surface. It originates from plants, in swampy / tropical regions, that lived millions of years ago. As the plants died year after year, they began to be compacted through the pressure of other dead plant matter, rocks and debris. Due to hundreds of millions of years, of pressure and the earth’s heat, peat and coal formed. |
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| Coal is usually mined from deep underground. Mine shafts are ‘sunk’ and the workforce is lowered by a lift to the coal level. Much of the coal is removed from a ‘seam’ of coal, using mechanised equipment. Even today, mining is regarded as a dangerous occupation. |
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