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Coal industry

* Collier,
coal miner Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extrac ...
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coal merchant A coal merchant is the term used in the UK and other countries for a trader who sells coal and often delivers it to households. Coal merchants were once a major class of local business, but have declined in importance in many parts of the developed ...
* Colliery,
coal mining Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...
and selling; or a coal mine *
Collier (ship) A collier is a bulk carrier, bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal. Early evidence of coal being transported by sea includes use of coal in London in 1306. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, coal was shipped from the River Tyne to ...
, a bulk cargo ship which carried coal * Charcoal maker, in colonial United States and also in Sussex, England


Places

* Collier Row, a place in the London Borough of Havering * Colliers Wood, an area in the London Borough of Merton *
Collier County, Florida Collier County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 375,752; an increase of 16.9% since the 2010 United States Census. Its county seat is East N ...
, a county of Florida's southwest coast * Collier, Georgia, an unincorporated community *
Colliers, West Virginia Colliers is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The ...
, a small town in the northern panhandle area of West Virginia * Colliers, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on the Avalon Peninsula * Collier Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh * Collier Range National Park, Australian park * Collier High School (New Jersey), a school in Wickatunk, New Jersey


People

* Collier (surname) * Collier Twentyman Smithers (1867–1943), British portrait artist


Other

* Collier Baronets, a title in the British honours system * Collier Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company * ''
Collier's Encyclopedia ''Collier's Encyclopedia'' is a discontinued general encyclopedia first published in 1949 by P. F. Collier and Son in the United States. With ''Encyclopedia Americana'' and ''Encyclopædia Britannica, Collier's Encyclopedia'' became one of the t ...
'', a U.S. encyclopedia * Collier Motors, the last auto dealer in the U.S. under the American Motors banner * Collier (necklace), a type of necklace, possibly a synonym for choker *
Collier Trophy The Robert J. Collier Trophy is awarded annually "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been t ...
, a prestigious award in American aviation * ''
Collier's } ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...
'', a U.S. magazine published between 1888 and 1957 * Colliers (company), commercial real estate services company * Colliers Wood United F.C., an English association football club {{disambiguation, geo