Coal Mining
Opencast coal mining is now one of the main employers. The Knockshinnoch Disaster Memorial in New Cumnock is dedicated to the 13 people who died in that event; the miners who survived and the rescuers who were sent to save others. The Scottish Wildlife Trust took over the Knockshinnoch Bing, turning into a wetland reserve with paths.
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Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or mining:
““The room’s very hot, with all this crowd,” the Professor said to Sylvie. “I wonder why they don’t put some lumps of ice in the grate? You fill it with lumps of coal in the winter, you know, and you sit round it and enjoy the warmth. How jolly it would be to fill it now with lumps of ice, and sit round it and enjoy the coolth!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)