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Answer for the clue "A region where there is coal underground ", 9 letters:
coalfield

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a region where there is coal underground

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN area ▪ Maps and memoirs of the main coalfield areas had been published and many of the one-inch sheets of non-coalfield areas had appeared. ▪ If Mr. Millan releases the money, every last penny of it will go to the coalfield ...

Usage examples of coalfield.

As a child, Daffer once saw a big miner from the Kentuck coalfields take six .

The millerfather nods understandingly and advises his son to go to work either in the coalfields or for him.

Evidently she hailed from the Tyne, and since the Welsh coalfields supply the iron furnaces around Swansea with as much coal as they want, it was as futile for a Tyneside collier to carry coals to the Bristol Channel ports as it would be for her to carry that commodity to Newcastle.