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Originally Posted by desmo11225
Hello Every One
I have just joined your forum !!!! I worked in the mines during the war starting January 1940 at 14 years and one month, leaving when the Essential Works Order was with drawn in 1950, I was the first of my family not work under ground [I only worked on the surface]
It seems a terrible shame to me that we only want to get the coal out to burn it, nothing else, Dr Bronowski [Not sure of the spelling] was able to make all kinds of uses from coal, Paint, Chemicals of all kinds, even saccharin, sweetener. Why has'nt more research gone into making these priceless products from it, surely young people could come up with some wonderful ideas now that would save the industry before it's gone all together. Any modern thoughts on that idea. Regards desmo11225
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The problem is North Sea Oil and Gas came on stream. Its a lot easier to make chemicals from that base than from coal.
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Originally Posted by Taf
Whilst we can import coal cheaper than we would pay to mine it, it makes good sense to keep our stocks where they are.
Plus in the future there might be a more efficient way to extract the energy from it which would also be environmentally safe and not an eyesore.
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If (rather than when) coal prices rise strongly, then UK mines will become cost effective again and they can be reopened.
The big difference is that a lot of UK coal is deep mining, whereas imports ten to be from opencast mines, which are a lot cheaper to operate.
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Originally Posted by Osem
If only more people had been altruistic enough to buy British produced stuff, irrespective of cost and quality, all those industries which have failed over the years would still be here. The fact is that a lot of people like to sound off about supporting British industry and jobs until doing so winds up costing them more than buying the imported equivalent.
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Fact is if you can't sell to your own market, what hope have you got of selling internationally?