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Where the coal-face meets the road is a catch phrase in the transdimensional resource extraction industry.
Effects
The phrase conflates a wide range of coal mine fires (nonfiction) and mountains of burning tires (nonfiction), in a variety of road-related environments.
Origin
The origin of the catch phrase has been widely debated.
Weaponizing the digeridoo?
According to John Brunner, the phrase originates during the Second World War (nonfiction) with secret Australian-American experiments towards weaponizing (nonfiction) the didgeridoo (nonfiction).
Brunner stated that the process uses diagramaceous soil.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
Soil diagram.