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The Farmington Mine disaster was an explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington, West Virginia, United States. The explosion was large enough to be felt in Fairmont, almost 12 miles (19 km) away. [citation needed] At the time, 99 miners were inside ...
Farmington is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 389 at the 2020 census. [3] The small town is situated on Buffalo Creek and the Allegheny Mountains about 6 miles west of Fairmont, Marion County's county seat. [6] It is best known for being the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.
Monongah Mining disaster West Virginia, US 1907. Senghenydd pit, UK 1913. The Farmington coal mine disaster kills 78. West Virginia, US 1968. This is an incomplete list of notable mining accidents and disasters that have killed at least 10 persons:
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West Virginia is the largest coal-producing state in Appalachia, and the second-largest coal-producing state in the United States, accounting for about 11% of the nation's total coal production in 2014 (the largest coal-producing state is Wyoming, which lies in the Western coal region and accounts for 40% of U.S. coal production). [4]
A Utah man has been jailed for a year for filming himself torturing and crushing guinea pigs and posting the videos on YouTube.. Samuel Webster, 20, of Farmington, Utah, pleaded guilty to animal ...
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The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology (Charleston, WV: Appalachian Editions, 1990), ISBN 0962748609 Hamilton, Neil A., "West Virginia Mining District Erupts in Violence at Matewan and Blair Mountain," Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States (NY: Routledge, 2002), available online in part