Natural Resource Analysis Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA. A comprehensive impact analysis of mountaintop removal and valley fill (MTR/VF) mining requires an understanding of ...
Over a week in July 2022, more than a foot of rainfall came down on Eastern Kentucky bringing a deluge of flood waters that displaced thousands of people and killed ...
This form of mining removes large patches of land temporarily, giving workers access to coal. A good example of this is mountaintop mining. This is a variant of open-pit mining which uses explosives ...
The agencies will "apply new conditions to permits issued to regulate the placement of dirt or rock from mountaintop mining in streams," EPA said in a release. Many coal companies in the region, ...
Unlike many states, Wyoming's mining history isn't all past tense. The Eagle Butte Coal Mine in Gillette is a fascinating place to visit for those looking for a unique activity as it's one of just a ...
The answer was to innovate a new method of mining that combined the low capital intensity of the doghole mine with the low marginal cost of the high-productivity mine. That method was mountaintop ...
"We need mining to get certain resources out of the ground," says Heather Shrimpton, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences). "We can't ...