Core Natural Resources will idle operations at its Itmann mine in West Virginia in August, citing weaker than expected market ...

WYOMING COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Layoffs continue as the mining industry suffers an uncertain fate in West Virginia. Yesterday ...

Most of West Virginia’s coal production comes from underground mines, also called deep mines. The rest comes from surface mining. It is uncertain how long the existing U.S. coal reserves will ...

I wrote a slightly snotty post about West Virginia recently ... economies becomes even more important when we realize that coal reserves throughout most of Appalachia are projected to peak ...

The West Virginia Legislature is working on critical ... the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine the nation’s coal reserves and open up lease agreements to tap those veins of coal ...

First Reserve Corp., a leveraged buyout pioneer ... ever recorded in wildlife came from samples taken near coal mines in West Virginia. Selenium is just one of the threats to Appalachia, home ...

West Virginia coal provided high-wage jobs ... reaching greater gas reserves. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals underground to free gas from ...

Together, the two mines have 109 million tons of reserves in a coal seam that underlies at least 143 square miles of northern West Virginia. While a boon to the state’s economy, longwall mining ...

West Virginia is not quite finished as an energy powerhouse. Far from it. Our energy potential extends far beyond the constrains of coal. Rich reserves of natural gas, coupled with emerging ...