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West Virginia had only a few active coal mines during the US Civil War, with fewer than 1,600 miners in the whole state. [3] Coal mining would flourish, however, between 1880 and 1900, after competing railroad companies began carving routes through the mountains of Appalachia.
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.
The Hobet 21 Coal Mine site is currently defunct and in 2016, former West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin proposed developing the environmentally degraded former coal field. [1] This residential, industrial and commercial development plan is intended to offset the economic impacts from the declining coal industry, but has been called "a long ...
Battle of Blair Mountain. Part of the West Virginia Coal Wars. Cover of The Washington Times with the headline that the US airfleet had been sent into West Virginia. Date. August 25 to September 2, 1921. Location. Logan County, West Virginia. 37°51′45″N 81°51′23″W / 37.86250°N 81.85639°W / 37.86250; -81.85639. Resulted in.
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) was approved on August 3, 1977. This Act established guidelines for the regulation of surface mining and the reclamation of the mine sites. This is enforced under the administration of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, in the Department of the Interior.
Pocahontas Coalfield is a large high quality coal deposit in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [4] The deposit mining started in 1883 in Pocahontas, Virginia [5] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1, now on the National Register of Historic Places. The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No. 11—are ...
The New River Coalfield is located in northeastern Raleigh County and southern Fayette County, West Virginia. Commercial mining of coal began in the 1870s and thrived into the 20th century. The coal in this field is a low volatile coal, known as "smokeless" coals. [1] The seams of coal that have been mined include Sewell, Fire Creek, and Beckley.
Added to NRHP. March 25, 1988. Phillips-Sprague Mine, also known as the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, is a historic coal mine located at New River Park in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The mine opened about 1889 on what had been operated as a drift mine. Commercial development of the drift mine began in 1905 and the first coal was ...