An Indian mining firm decided to dig up less of a big coal deposit in Australia than originally planned.

一家印度矿业公司决定降低原计划在澳大利亚一处大型煤矿的开采数量。

From sixty to seventy per cent of all the known coal deposits in the world were located in our national domain.

世界上所有已知煤矿的 60% 到 70% 都位于我国领土内。

Though we had the largest coal deposits known to geologists, we were bringing large supplies of this indispensable necessity from Nova Scotia.

尽管我们拥有地质学家所知的最大的煤矿床， 但我们还是从新斯科舍省带来了这种不可或缺的必需品的大量供应。

Over the next decades, other scientists brought forth more evidence for the theory of continental drift, such as the presence of identical plant fossils in North American and European coal deposits.

在接下来的几十年里，其他科学家为大陆漂移理论提出了更多的证据，比如在北美和欧洲的煤矿中发现了相同的植物化石。

Coal deposits were found in the Appalachians stretching from Pennsylvania down to Alabama, in Michigan, in the Mississippi Valley, and in the Western mountains from North Dakota to New Mexico.

在从宾夕法尼亚州一直延伸到阿拉巴马州的阿巴拉契亚山脉、密歇根州、密西西比河谷以及从北达科他州到新墨西哥州的西部山区都发现了煤炭矿床。

The companies building the canals to transport coal needed surveyors to help them find the coal deposits worth mining as well as to determine the best courses for the canals.

修建运河运输煤炭的公司需要测量员帮助他们找到值得开采的煤矿，并确定运河的最佳路线。