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 **Coal Mining/Primary Industry in the UK (Historical)** Historical (1954) film showing the experience of coal miners in the UK. Notice how coal mining is portrayed as being heroic and the recipe to the economic prosperity of the country. This may have been the case in the past, but as the world economy has changed coal reserves in the UK became uneconomic and the UK had to prop up the failing industry with taxes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArpILE1xn-M
 * Economic Activities**

As recent economic changes have increased the cost of gas and oil, some easier to reach coal reserves in the UK have again become economic. Whilst this means that some open cut mines have been opening in the UK, this will not provide the scale of operations that deep cut mines have provided in the past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspcgIbgZ3M
 * Coal Mining Resurgence in the UK**