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by Turing_Machine 951 days ago
> "thanks to the good pumping system" (guess what powers that)

In the 19th Century?

Steam engines that burn part of the extracted coal. What else?

> by the late 19th century the seams were becoming exhausted

Those particular seams, maybe. They're not the only seams, dude.

I think we're done here.