[听力原文] 6-7 Twenty-five miners are now known to have died and four are missing in an accident at a West Virginia coal mine. [6]The worst mine disaster in the US since 1984 was caused by an underground explosion at Upper Big Branch, about 30 miles south of Charleston. It happened...
Va. (AP/KDKA) -- A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working as a longwall electrician at the underground Leer Mining Complex operated by Arch Resources ...
Va. (AP/KDKA) -- A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working as a longwall electrician at the underground Leer Mining Complex operated by Arch Resourc...
William “Joe” Crandall was killed in an incident at Arch Resource's ACI Tygart Valley Mine in Taylor County, West Virginia, on Monday. Crandall is the second worker to die as a result of a mine accident in the last month in the coal-producing state. A 33-year-old...
West Virginia coal mine still too toxic for rescue mission.(USA)Rescue efforts were focused on drilling holes into the coal minein Montcoal, West Virginia, to...Paulson, Amanda
West Virginia Coal Mine. Following the Civil War, an awakening of interest in the State’s mineral resources brought a new era of development and growth to the coal industry. In 1867, 490,000 tons of coal were produced in West Virginia. ...
Geography of the Mine Wars This map shows the counties that witnessed some of the pivotal moments of the West Virginia Mine Wars. Interact with the map to learn about each county's roles in the events. The counties shown here in the part of southwestern West Virginia were major coal produci...
Green makes clear that the armed strikes of the West Virginia coalfields were part of an unprecedented strike wave throughout the United States during the "height of the Progressive Era" (92). In West Virginia, as in the United States generally, the Progressive impulse fed off bourgeois fears...
“The day-to-day air and water pollution and associated health impacts from living with mountain removal and large-scale surface mining has been largely ignored by lawmakers and people in West Virginia living outside of the southern coal regions“, she wrote in an email. ...
©Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, November 2024. Also See: Mining on the American Frontier West Virginia Coal Mining West Virginia Coal Mine Disasters West Virginia Mine Wars Sources: Historical Marker Database West Virginia Encyclopedia West Virginia Public Radio...