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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. Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   US employment in coal mining peaked in 1923, when there were 863,000 coal miners. [45] Since then, mechanization has greatly improved productivity in coal mining, so that employment has declined at the same time coal production increased. The average number of coal mining employees declined to 41,600 in 2020. [1]

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

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   On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men underground at the time. The other 91 men in ...

5. Eastern Kentucky Coalfield - Wikipedia

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   From 2012 to 2014, "Appalachian" Kentucky—which includes all of the Eastern Coalfield and several counties in South Central Kentucky and a few in the eastern part of the Bluegrass region—had a three-year average unemployment rate of 9.8%, compared with 7.6% statewide and 7.2% nationwide. [14]

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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   The search for two workers, following the collapse of a shuttered Kentucky coal processing facility, trudged into a fourth day with hopes of a rescue looking "grim," officials said Friday.

8. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   Mountaintop removal coal mining in Martin County, Kentucky Strip mining in Barnesville, Ohio. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia is the study of environmental justice – the interdisciplinary body of social science literature studying theories of the environment and justice; environmental laws, policies, and their implementations and enforcement; development and ...

9. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited - Wikipedia

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   MCL operates coal mines across Odisha, [1] [2] [3] with a total of seven open-cast mines and three underground mines. [3] [4] MCL has two subsidiaries with private companies as a joint venture. The name of these companies are MJSJ Coal Limited [5] & MNH Shakti Ltd. [6] There are 45 sanctioned mining projects in MCL with a capacity of 190.83 Mty ...