CONSOL Energy Temporarily Idles Enlow Fork Mine, Reopens Bailey Mine, Pa.
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CONSOL Energy Inc. is temporarily idling one of its mines in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Enlow Fork, part of the vast underground mining complex CONSOL owns in Greene and Washington counties, is being shut due to weakness in the coal markets due to COVID-19. It wasn’t clear how many employees would be impacted by the idling; there are 1,500 employers and contractors at the entire mining complex that includes Bailey and Harvey mines.
“We will assess and monitor the ever-changing situation in the global marketplace and will evaluate options continuously, as we navigate through this pandemic,” CONSOL said in a statement Tuesday. “As always, we intend to run our operations safely and compliantly, with our production based on market conditions and customer inventories.”
The 29-year-old Enlow Fork had two longwall units and six continuous mining units in operation producing about 10 million tons of coal in 2018.
CONSOL had just gotten back one of its other mines, Bailey, on Monday after a two-week shutdown sparked by two employees testing positive for COVID-19. The mine reopened after it was deep cleaned and shifts staggered.
The coal industry, even before the global pandemic, had been challenged. One of the largest mining companies, Murray Energy Corp., is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Another major Greene County employer, Contura Energy, announced April 3 that it was temporarily idling most of its mines due to market conditions. That did not include Cumberland Mine, which is in Greene County.
Source: WPXI.com
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