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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. List of coal mines in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Underground Virginia: 5,352,731 San Juan Mine 1: San Juan Coal Underground New Mexico: 5,327,442 No 7 Mine: Warrior Met Coal Mining Underground Alabama: 4,864,828 El Segundo El Segundo Coal Surface New Mexico 4,855,010 West Elk Mine: Arch Coal [4] Underground Colorado: 4,821,281 Harvey Mine: CONSOL Energy

4. 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]

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Mountaintop removal mining - Wikipedia

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   The industry overall lost approximately 10,000 jobs from 1990 to 1997, as MTR and other more mechanized underground mining methods became more widely used. [27] The coal industry asserts that surface mining techniques, such as mountaintop removal, are safer for miners than sending miners underground. [28]

9. 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.