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GRAFTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — A 34-year-old miner from Preston County died after a hook and strap assembly broke at the Leer Mine in Taylor County in September, according to a new report.
By integrating the North Rochelle mine with Black Thunder, Arch created the premier mine in the nation's fastest growing coal supply region. [ 12 ] In September 2004, Arch again added to its Powder River Basin reserves when it was the winning bidder on Little Thunder, a 719-million-ton federal reserve tract adjacent to the Black Thunder Coal Mine .
ICG eventually operated 12 mining complexes in Northern and Central Appalachia (Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia) and one complex in the Illinois Basin. In November 2005, ICG had a stock offering on the New York Stock Exchange. [2] In 2011 ICG became a subsidiary of Arch Coal, Inc in 2011.
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The Hobet 21 Coal Mine site is currently defunct and in 2016, former West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin proposed developing the environmentally degraded former coal field. [1] This residential, industrial and commercial development plan is intended to offset the economic impacts from the declining coal industry, but has been called "a long ...
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Spruce 1 is a proposed coal strip-mining operation approximately two miles northeast of Blair in Logan County, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains. [1] First proposed in 1997 by Arch Coal Inc. of St. Louis, the operation was first to cover 3,113 acres (12.60 km 2), then reduced to 2,278.
The company announced that it has sold its Hazard unit to privately held Blackhawk Mining for $26.3 million in cash. The subsidiary's core asset is the Hazard thermal coal mining complex in Arch ...