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Average annual number of coal miners, 1985 to 2015 (Data from St. Louis Federal Reserve Board) Average annual number of employed coal miners in the United States, 1890–2014. At the end of July 2022, the coal industry employed approximately 38,400 miners. [1] US employment in coal mining peaked in 1923, when there were 863,000 coal miners. [45]
The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal.. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941,000 short tons of coal.
In 1810, 176,000 short tons of bituminous coal, and 2,000 tons of anthracite coal, were mined in the United States. American coal mining grew rapidly in the early 1820s, doubling or tripling every decade. Anthracite mining overtook bituminous coal mining in the 1840s; from 1843 through 1868, more anthracite was mined than bituminous coal.
Coal-mining was also one of the many dangerous jobs that employed child workers. Children were perfect for squeezing into tight spaces in mines that adults could never reach.
In 2015, the value of coal, metals, and industrial minerals mined in the United States was US$109.6 billion. 158,000 workers were directly employed by the mining industry. [ 1 ] The mining industry has a number of impacts on communities, individuals and the environment.
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Pages in category "Coal mining regions in the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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