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Alpha Transfers Mining Properties to Lexington Coal
Alpha Natural Resources has announced the transfer of mostly idle mining properties in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee to Lexington Coal Co.,…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFighting For Breath: Black Lung's Deadliest Form Increases
At the age of 38, a coal miner named Mackie Branham Jr. was diagnosed with progressive massive fibrosis, a debilitating and terminal form of an illness…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsW.Va. DEP Settles with Alpha, Again
West Virginia regulators have settled a lawsuit brought against Alpha Natural Resources over concerns about the coal producer's reclamation obligations as…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAlpha Liabilities Cause Concern for West Virginia Regulators
Just months after emerging from bankruptcy, Alpha Natural Resources has revealed $100 million in what it calls "unaccounted for obligations," causing West…
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After Emerging from Bankruptcy, Alpha Resources Sells Mine
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources has sold some of its eastern Kentucky coal property to a Texas company.The company says it has divested most of the…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMan Missing in Mine Where 2010 Blast Killed 29 Miners
A man has been reported missing after authorities say he went to steal copper from a shuttered West Virginia mine that had been the site of a 2010…
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