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Within the coal mining industry, this type of coal is known for releasing the largest amounts of firedamp, a dangerous mixture of gases that can cause underground explosions. Extraction of bituminous coal demands the highest safety procedures involving attentive gas monitoring, good ventilation and vigilant site management.
In 1810, 176,000 short tons of bituminous coal, and 2,000 tons of anthracite coal, were mined in the United States. American coal mining grew rapidly in the early 1820s, doubling or tripling every decade. Anthracite mining overtook bituminous coal mining in the 1840s; from 1843 through 1868, more anthracite was mined than bituminous coal.
Ohio County Mine Ohio County Coal Underground West Virginia 6,046,582 Dry Fork Mine: Western Fuels Association [12] Surface Wyoming 6,045,618 Gibson South: Gibson County Coal Underground Indiana 5,955,676 Sufco: Arch Coal [4] Underground Utah: 5,883,975 Bull Mountains Mine No 1: Signal Peak Energy Underground
Location of surface coal mines in the US Locations of underground coal mines in the US Trends in underground versus surface mining of US coal, 1949–2011. The hardest coal, anthracite, originally used for steel production, heating, and as fuel for ships and railroads, had by 2000 dwindled to an insignificant portion of production.
Coal mining has been a very dangerous activity and the list of historical coal mining disasters is long. In the U.S., 104,895 coal miners were killed in mine accidents since 1900, [32] 90 percent of the fatalities occurring in the first half of the 20th century. 3,242 died in 1907, the worst year ever; in 2020 there were five. [33]
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal (bituminous coal) miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10,000 to 115,000 members. [45]
"Industrial Structure, Union Strategy and Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1881–1894", Social Science History (2002) 16#1 pp 1–32. Roy, Andrew. A history of the coal miners of the United States, from the development of the mines to the close of the anthracite strike of 1902, including a brief sketch of early British miners (1907 ...
The mine is located in Crandall Canyon about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) west of its junction with the main highway road, State Route 31, which runs through Huntington Canyon. The Manti-La Sal National Forest surrounds the mine. The mine conducts surface operations on 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of disturbed land within the forest. [2]