Explore coal mining through the eyes of the co-owners of Cobalt Coal, Mike Crowder and Tom Roberts. The two struck up a mining partnership while watching their sons practice football and have invested their life savings into starting this mine operation. The duo leads more than 40 machine operators, foremen, electricians and drivers in one of the most dangerous workplaces on the planet, underneath the mountains of Appalachia. They face pressure every minute of every day to keep the mine up and running or face personal financial ruin but, more importantly, to keep their workers safe in a highly combustible environment where one wrong move could prove deadly. 

 

Get an extraordinary insight into every aspect of the job, from the dangers behind the super-charged explosions needed to open surface mines to the well-publicised daily dangers of working in the dark recesses of the earth’s crust in a traditional shaft mine. It is within this cramped, claustrophobic environment more than 600 feet into the mountain that COAL’s life and death drama unfolds.

 

COAL premieres Monday, 28 November at 10pm (9pm BKK/JKT).