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in 2013 there were 80209 people employed in coal mining in the u s of those 47475 worked in underground mining and 35398 worked in surface mining here is a breakdown of the geographical distribution of underground coal mining jobs in 2006 with coal production in thousands of short tons
In 1951, the industry employed 450,000 people. Today that's down to about 21,000. But those figures tell only half the story. Fifty years ago, the UK produced 16m tonnes of steel - 35 tonnes for each workers. Today productivity has shot up - each employee now produces 623 tonnes. For all its problems, steel has worked hard to stay competitive - the UK is still the world's fourth largest exporter. But it's Corus - formed in 1999 when British Steel merged with the Dutch firm Hoogovens - which has overseen the latest decline.