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Arch Coal Signs Three-Year Deal with Kentucky Utilities for Its Thunder Mine

August 6, 2019

Arch Coal signed a three-year deal to supply at least 1.35 million st of Powder River Basin coal to Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities’ Trimble County Generation Station along the Ohio River, according to a regulatory filing made

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Nevada Gold Mines Hosts 33rd Annual Safety Olympiad

August 6, 2019

Emergency Response Teams and volunteers arrived at the Elko Convention Center at 4:30 Tuesday morning, the sounds of their gear clinking, combining with the excited chatter of more than 100 volunteers and participants. Wearing matching team shirts, competitors talked to

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Kentucky Coal Miners Call on Trump for Support Amid Ongoing Payment Showdown

August 6, 2019

You can’t miss it on the side of the highway. It’s an encampment of pop-up tents congregated on and around railway tracks, tucked away in a narrow valley near Cumberland, Kentucky. A cornhole game lies in the middle of the

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Laid-off Miners Who are Owed Paychecks File Complaints with Kentucky Labor Cabinet

August 6, 2019

At least 400 Kentucky miners have filed complaints with the Kentucky Labor Cabinet stating they haven’t been paid by Blackjewel LLC after the company closed its mines. The coal company filed for bankruptcy July 16, according to court documents, and

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Fatality from Methane Gas Explosion at Paradise Coal Mine No. 9, Kentucky

August 5, 2019

Officials from the Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet (EEC), including Secretary Charles Snavely and Department for Natural Resources Commissioner John Small are at Paradise Mine No. 9 in Bremen, Kentucky where an accident occurred involving a 62-year-old welder and iron

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Hudbay Minerals to Appeal Federal Court Ruling Stopping Rosemont Mine, Arizona

August 5, 2019

The Canadian mining company proposing to build an open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains said Thursday that it will appeal a federal judge’s ruling blocking the mine’s construction. The ruling stopping the Rosemont Mine drew sharp criticism from

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Judge Vacates Water Discharge Permit for Hecla Mining’s Montanore Mine, Montana

August 5, 2019

A judge has vacated a water-discharge permit for a silver and copper mine that would tunnel beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana, saying state regulators violated clean water laws in issuing the permit to Hecla Mining Co. District

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Barkerville Readies for Environmental Review Process for Cariboo Underground Gold Project, B.C.

August 5, 2019

Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. is getting close to being able to submit a detailed project description for its proposed Cariboo Gold Project (CGP) underground gold mine near Wells, triggering the formal environmental review process. BGM held a community update meeting

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August 10: Delegate Morefield to Host Family Day in Tazwell for Laid Off Miners, Va.

August 5, 2019

With about 400 coal miners now without jobs in Southwest Virginia, a Virginia delegate from Tazewell County wants to give those miners and their families a day of recreation and recognition. Del. James W. “Will” Morefield said he and his

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Coal Miners Await Results from Auction of Blackjewel Mines

August 5, 2019

The auction of mines owned by bankrupt coal operator Blackjewel continued well into the evening Thursday, with no results announced before press time. The sale comes exactly one month after Blackjewel shuttered its two Wyoming mines, sending hundreds of workers

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