On Monday we went to the Brunner Mine Site.
The first thing we learnt was how coal forms and how they mined coal.
We answered coal forms. First it needs to be in a swampy place then it forms due to low oxygen. Then they screen the coal to different sizes then they load it in to chutes.
Then we walked around the site. First we found the coke oven. This is where they put little bits of coal in the oven. Then they put the oven on lukewarm. The coal changes into something that does not look like coal and it can burn hot enough to melt steel.
Then we went to the cemetery.
There were 33 in the mass grave,
then there were 2 miners buried with their
family (in that cemetery).