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Summary of Buchanan County
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2004 |
2003 |
2002 |
2001 |
2000 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997 |
1996 |
1995 |
1994 |
1993 |
1992 |
1991 |
1990 |
| Production |
| Production (short tons) |
10,171,912 |
10,275,160 |
9,843,277 |
11,346,123 |
11,043,687 |
10,084,364 |
12,088,985 |
13,974,830 |
14,701,024 |
14,055,640 |
14,550,698 |
13,964,187 |
17,541,828 |
18,023,460 |
20,833,536 |
| Surface |
2,581,920 |
2,229,942 |
1,531,578 |
2,042,297 |
1,642,796 |
1,292,656 |
1,084,094 |
998,230 |
1,417,257 |
1,489,897 |
1,209,263 |
1,216,646 |
1,181,384 |
1,150,616 |
1,477,556 |
| Underground |
7,598,560 |
7,921,999 |
8,311,699 |
9,303,826 |
9,400,891 |
8,791,708 |
11,004,891 |
12,976,600 |
13,283,766 |
12,565,743 |
13,341,435 |
12,747,541 |
16,360,444 |
16,872,844 |
19,355,980 |
| Cont. Miner |
2,459,873 |
1,355,650 |
2,971,095 |
2,522,004 |
3,648,559 |
3,599,591 |
4,613,092 |
6,166,596 |
8,328,639 |
6,933,249 |
7,694,311 |
8,103,020 |
9,315,224 |
10,163,485 |
11,385,534 |
| Longwall |
5,142,079 |
6,566,349 |
5,340,604 |
6,781,822 |
5,752,332 |
5,192,117 |
6,359,061 |
6,801,286 |
4,887,330 |
5,630,381 |
5,181,847 |
4,579,815 |
6,765,543 |
6,244,380 |
6,915,428 |
| Other |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
32,738 |
8,718 |
67,797 |
2,113 |
465,277 |
64,706 |
279,677 |
464,979 |
1,055,018 |
| # Mines |
97 |
92 |
108 |
110 |
117 |
140 |
134 |
143 |
126 |
149 |
169 |
173 |
167 |
191 |
196 |
| Employment |
| Prod. Workers |
1,332 |
1,206 |
1,415 |
1,690 |
1,468 |
1,589 |
1,901 |
2,250 |
2,394 |
2,670 |
3,260 |
3,851 |
3,587 |
4,018 |
4,541 |
| Surface |
469 |
423 |
428 |
140 |
472 |
181 |
149 |
167 |
193 |
173 |
186 |
147 |
136 |
250 |
211 |
| Underground |
863 |
783 |
987 |
1,218 |
1,267 |
1,408 |
1,752 |
2,083 |
2,201 |
2,497 |
3,074 |
3,704 |
3,451 |
3,768 |
4,330 |
| Worker Hours |
2,652,037 |
2,386,671 |
2,391,638 |
3,079,741 |
2,760,237 |
2,616,159 |
3,467,075 |
4,379,436 |
814,629 |
5,149,045 |
5,667,768 |
5,100,231 |
6,634,471 |
7,207,772 |
8,007,013 |
| Prod. Wages (dollars) |
68,394,884 |
61,786,939 |
58,179,600 |
68,653,630 |
60,821,374 |
52,878,207 |
70,199,424 |
86,743,015 |
91,482,312 |
98,580,456 |
82,670,054 |
95,365,250 |
105,100,612 |
112,980,045 |
124,740,335 |
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Notes:
"Other" underground mine production may include continuous miner, longwall, or other mining methods.
Productivity is in tons per worker hour. Figures rounded (Calculated by VCCER).
Note on production wages, 1994: Wages for 19 mines producing 1,001,661 tons were unavailable, and have not been included in these totals.
While calculating total number of mines in 1993, mines changing ownership at mid-year have been counted as a single mine.
"Producing Mines" includes all mines reporting production greater than zero.
N/A indicates Not Available.
Source:
Virginia DMME, Division of Mines, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, USA.
Published in:
Virginia Coal, 2001 and its previous publications, VCCER.
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