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unc70

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5. 500 workers laid off last year

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Apr 6, 2017, 04:54 AM

Apr 2017

Sounds like a highly mechanized operation with relatively few workers involved. Since this is open pit mining, these miners do not fit the stereotype. So, where 40% of the coal is mined, they lost 500 jobs last year. That's all. And because of production economics, those jobs in Wyoming are probably the ones that would return if more coal is mined, not ones in West Virginia or Kentucky.

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