There were few signs in recent months that Core Natural Resources would shut down a southern West Virginia coal mine, leaving ...

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 ...

What makes the coal clean? And most important, Trump claims “things are changing” in states such as West Virginia ... report on the commodity from the Reserve Bank of Australia.

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 ...

But as I read his statement, I realize Conyers is simply stating a very obvious fact: Coal mining counties are some of the poorest counties in America, and West Virginia needs to diversify our ...

Its reserves were dry ... its business purpose as “surface & underground coal mining,” according to documents filed with the West Virginia secretary of state. Grant Town says its plan to ...

In addition to coal, the Appalachian Mountains conceal an enormous reserve of natural gas embedded in the Marcellus Shale. West Virginia sits at the heart of these reserves, and the natural gas ...

that they sold off mining operations that sit atop 318 million tons of coal reserves in West Virginia and Alabama.

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 ...

West Virginia produces 60% of the coal that it ... At the same time, the most accessible—and therefore ­cheapest—coal reserves in Appalachia are mostly mined out. “Trump is not going ...

Chris Cline, a West Virginia native who built a coal empire ... Cline’s company had more than three billion tons of coal reserves across Illinois and the Northern Appalachians.

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 ...