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

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 ...

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 ...

The announcement by a major U.S. coal company that ... lousy markets and depleting reserves have hurt the industry. The reality is somber in southern West Virginia's coalfields, where many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has closed on its purchase of INR Energy's coal operations in southern West Virginia ... million tons of metallurgical coal reserves and 51 million tons of thermal ...