Each of us had to dig carefully to protect the land because that is where humans, plants and animals live however after we had removed the 'coal', the land looked like "it was all broken", "obliterated", "a pile of dust", "all broken up" and "basically nothing".
We realised that once we had removed the 'coal' (chips) that they would not come back because fossil fuels take millions of years to form.
Take a look at the pictures of us 'mining' below.