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2. Coal mining in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...

3. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   The shift towards coal surface mining from underground mining led to a 50% decline in mining jobs from 1985 to 2005, and competition from cheap natural gas also decreased demand for coal, leading some mines to close or reduce extraction, which further increased unemployment. [1]

4. List of coal mines in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Ohio County Mine Ohio County Coal Underground West Virginia 6,046,582 Dry Fork Mine: Western Fuels Association [12] Surface Wyoming 6,045,618 Gibson South: Gibson County Coal Underground Indiana 5,955,676 Sufco: Arch Coal [4] Underground Utah: 5,883,975 Bull Mountains Mine No 1: Signal Peak Energy Underground

5. Kentucky has a long history of coal mining disasters. These ...

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   The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men underground at the time. The other 91 men in the ...

6. Site of fatal Eastern Kentucky coal tipple collapse was in ...

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   More recently, in December 2018, the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources issued a surface mining and reclamation permit for the site to a different company, Lexington Coal Company LLC, which ...

7. Search for worker lost in Kentucky coal plant collapse ...

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   A road leads to a collapsed coal preparation plant in Martin County, Ky., on Nov. 1, 2023. (Ryan C. Hermens / Lexington Herald-Leader via Getty Images)

8. Safety lapses caused accident that killed Kentucky coal ... - AOL

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   The miner died when a massive section of the roof fell at an underground mine in Eastern Kentucky. Safety lapses caused accident that killed Kentucky coal miner, federal agency says Skip to main ...

9. Western Kentucky coalfield - Wikipedia

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   The Western Kentucky is a large coal field located in the east of the United States in Kentucky. Western Kentucky represents one of the largest coal reserve in the United States having estimated reserves of 35.67 billion tonnes of coal. [1] Other rocks in the area include conglomerate, sandstone, shale, limestone. [2]