A range of automated technologies, from rock crushers to shovel swings, have taken the place of humans in recent decades—a key reason that employment in the coal industry fell between 1980 and ...
Therefore, it is necessary to carry out monitoring and evaluation research on the risk of instability and disaster caused by the linkage of residual coal pillars and rock strata. The challenge of ...
A new report says hundreds of surface-mined coal sites across Eastern Kentucky have not been fully reclaimed as quickly as ...
Officials said anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff’s office or Crime Stoppers of the Quad Cities.
HB 1459 contains no landowner safeguards against cost deductions by the coal developer. This 2.5% of net income royalty is well below market pricing for hard rock mining royalties as reported by ...