Scottish coal industry

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The Scottish coal industry was a once-dominant sector of Scotland’s economy centered on the mining, processing, and export of coal that powered the country’s industrialization before its steep decline in the late 20th century.

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instanceOf coal industry
economic sector
associatedEvent UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
country Scotland
declineCause competition from oil and gas
depletion of easily worked coal seams
imported coal
pit closures policy of UK governments
shift to nuclear power
declinePeriod late 20th century
economicRole key driver of Scottish industrialization
major component of Scottish economy
environmentalImpact landscape alteration in Central Belt
spoil heaps and bings
exportedTo England
continental Europe
linked to: Continental Europe
governedBy Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946
Coal Mines Act 1911
heritageSite National Mining Museum Scotland
Newtongrange Lady Victoria Colliery
Scottish Mining Museum
laborForce coal miners in Scotland
laborOrganization National Union of Mineworkers (Scottish Area)
Scottish Mineworkers Union
locatedIn United Kingdom
mainRegion Ayrshire
Central Belt of Scotland
linked to: central Scotland

Clackmannanshire
East Lothian
Fife
Lanarkshire
Lothians
linked to: Lothian

Stirlingshire
West Lothian
mainResource coal
majorGrowthPhase Industrial Revolution
managedBy British Coal
linked to: National Coal Board

National Coal Board
nationalizationDate 1947
nationalizedBy United Kingdom government
linked to: UK government
peakEmploymentPeriod early 20th century
interwar years
peakProductionPeriod early 20th century
relatedIndustry Scottish iron industry
Scottish shipbuilding industry
Scottish steel industry
significantPeriod 19th century
20th century
socialImpact creation of mining communities in Scotland
subsequent unemployment in former mining areas
startPeriod early modern period
status largely defunct by early 21st century
suppliedSector domestic heating in Scotland
iron and steel industry in Scotland
railway industry in Scotland
shipbuilding industry in Scotland

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Methil Docks connectedTo Scottish coal industry