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Wehrum is an abandoned coal mining company town in Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States, that thrived for a time during the early 20th century. The mine upon which it was entirely dependent closed in 1929, and the last known inhabitants left in 1934.
The coal mines opened in 1959 and closed in 2001. [1] The number of miners was reported to be 8,000, [ 2 ] or over 10,000 at its peak. [ 3 ] As of 2021, only 111 individuals, mostly retired miners or their relatives, remained on the island.
An abandoned mine refers to a former mining or quarrying operation that is no longer in use and has no responsible entity to finance the cost of remediation and/or restoration of the mine feature or site. Such mines are typically left unattended and may pose safety hazards or cause environmental damage without proper maintenance.
Kay Moor, also known as Kaymoor, is the site of an abandoned coal mine, coal-processing plant, and coal town near Fayetteville, West Virginia. The town site is located in the New River Gorge at Kaymoor Bottom ( 38°03′00″N 81°03′17″W / 38.05000°N 81.05472°W / 38.05000; -81.05472 ( Kaymoor Bottom
Landrus is an abandoned town in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which formerly existed as a lumber and coal mining town. Its land currently is within the Tioga State Forest near Bear Run Trail and Babb Creek. [1] [2] Landrus has a population of 0 and was abandoned between 1910 and 1915 after being founded in 1882 as a sawmill town.
The Bear Valley Strip Mine is an abandoned coal strip mine located in Coal Township, Northumberland County, to the southwest of the town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. It lies in the Western Middle Field of the Anthracite belt in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians , where the Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation is exposed.
Lineage II adopted a free-to-play model in Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction, with all game content being free except for "purchasable in-game store items and packs" in November 2011. [4] A prequel, Lineage 2: Revolution, was released as a mobile game in 2016. Lineage 2M was launched for the first time in South Korea in November 2019. [5]
Having yielded eight million tons of coal, final closure came in 1931, [5] but unionization in Vancouver Island mines was not restored until 1938. [12] After 1931, Canadian Collieries leased out small unworked areas around abandoned mines to private contractors. Employing about 35 miners, the Beban mine was one of the larger operations. [13]