Low’s wealth is estimated to have swelled to $28 billion from $1 billion in the years since coal was assumed to be headed for the slag heap. Some experts had concluded that coal consumption ...

and have taken to illegal peddling of scavenged coal as a way to make a precarious living. Here, five women carry coal on their heads for peddling, from the slag heap of a nearby mine.

When Huw Morgan begins his story he is close onto 60, slag heaps have crept close against ... easily earnt and plenty of it,” and the Welsh coal miners lived a powerful, lyric, godly life ...