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A recent road slip on Glade Run in Taylor County is just one of a string of mining related damages impacting the area.
Federal officials have published an accident report following a preliminary investigation into the death of a West Virginia miner ... at the Twilight MTR Surface Mine in Boone County by the ...
A stone quarry collapse in Indonesia's West Java province has left several people dead and many more wounded or trapped, according to officials and local media. Two people were killed and at least 10 ...
She was first transported to Grafton City Hospital before being transferred to the West ... mining technique used there, which shears large sections of coal and allows the overhead rock to ...
A group of West Virginia coal miners rescued a couple after their electric vehicle died, pushing the car to a charging station at the coal mine. West Virginia State Sen. Randy Smith (R ...
West Virginia’s fund to clean up abandoned ... In 2022, three sections of hillside at the Twilight mine collapsed, sending mud and debris into a small stream. Regulators ordered the creek ...
May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...
In bygone days, the mine was among West Virginia’s most productive ... financial footing and wasn’t to blame for the later collapse.) It was during Patriot’s second trip through bankruptcy ...
Spadaro said that methane can coalesce in those mined areas of collapsed rock and ... $4.2 billion in revenue for mining companies operating in West Virginia and nearly $10 billion in total ...
6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia. December 19 ... when areas of the mine collapse. August 16, 2007 – Three rescue workers are killed and six are injured when a part of the mine ...