Interesting Coal web pages

This page has a picture of a mine in Boone county and show the "negative" aspect most people think of during the mining process.

http://coalgeology.com/boone-county-west-virginia-and-coal-mining/18649/

A web page that lists the "10 Most Toxic Places on Earth"  shows West Virginia Mountain Top Removal:

http://brainz.org/10-most-toxic-places-earth/

This article (July 2009) talks about  . . "Kayford Mountain, just east of the state capitol Charleston, is the only mountain left in the area that has not been decapitated for coal. . . "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-cooper/west-virginia-coal-thugs_b_226979.html

On this page, the article itself is not what caught my eye, but the responses from miner at the bottom.

http://conservationreport.com/2010/01/29/coal-not-so-clean/

I found this site working on a park  called Miners Memorial Park Project  and is dedicated to the memory of West Virginia's miners who died in an explosion on April 30, 1927 at the Federal No. 3 Mine. In April 2008.

http://www.wveha.org/history/Memorial_Park_Developement