Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Map showing the coalfields of Great Britain in the 19th century. Across the world, coal had been used as a source of ...

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution ... steel is made by heating iron ore in a blast furnace fueled with coal and coke, a coal-derived ...

Since the industrial revolution, iron and steelmaking plants have grown up close to coalfields. Steel mills in the Ruhr Valley, Silesia, and South Wales all developed around coal deposits. Ever-larger ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean ...

The rapid industrialization that Japan achieved from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century was founded on iron and steel, shipbuilding and coal mining ... The Sites of Japan’s Meiji ...

There are not a few men, however, who readily enter into the excitement and turmoil of quasi revolution ... of extracting oil from the coal and iron-ore and the slate-stone.

On the other hand, steelmaking is one of the world’s largest sources of carbon emissions, primarily due to the traditional process of extracting iron from ore using coal-fired blast furnaces.

This area thrived on its abundant coal seams and fostered ... became a symbol and the cradle of the Industrial Revolution due to pioneering developments in iron ore smelting, earning itself ...

South Africa has identified platinum, manganese, iron ore, coal and chrome as the critical ... the highest potential to drive economic and industrial growth are prioritised which then provides ...