Where the coal-face meets the road

Where the coal-face meets the road is a catch phrase in the transdimensional resource extraction industry.

Origins and consequences

The phrase conflates a wide range of coal mine fires (nonfiction) and mountains of burning tires (nonfiction), in a variety of road-related environments.

Fiction cross-reference

• Catch phrase
• Transdimensional resource extraction

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Resource extraction (nonfiction)