Coal River

Coal River may refer to:

Rivers
  • Coal River (Canada), in Yukon and British Columbia
  • Coal River, New Zealand, in Fiordland
  • Coal River (West Virginia), in the United States
  • Coal River (Tasmania), in Australia
Other
  • Coal River (book), a 2008 nonfiction book about mountaintop removal mining in the United States
  • Coal River was the early name for the Australian settlement which became Newcastle, New South Wales

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or river:

    “Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
    —Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)

    “I am advised that there is an unexpended balance of about $45,000 of the fund appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by flood upon the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be given to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of the poorer people in Oklahoma.”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)