KEMPER COUNTY — Once Mississippi Power Co.’s generating plant in Kemper County comes online, it will be supported by a large — and eventually, the largest — coal mining operation in the state. Mississippi Power president/CEO Ed Day says there is enough lignite coal in East Mississippi to keep the plant running for decades. Liberty [...] [...]
BATESVILLE — The City of Batesville has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to uphold a decision that would allow Memphis Stone and Gravel to operate a gravel pit in the southern part of the town. Scott and Mona Harrison, who live near the area where the pit would be located along Mississippi 35, appealed the [...] [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — Troubled coal producer Massey Energy is preparing for a shareholder vote on corporate governance reforms. The vote is set for a special meeting Wednesday in Richmond. Shareholders are being asked to approve changes including declassifying Massey’s board of directors and eliminating a prohibition on stockholders requesting special meetings. Massey has made a [...] [...]
EUREKA — A judge has ruled that the Panola County Land Commission has authority to reject a permit sought by Memphis Stone and Gravel Co. to mine gravel in the Eureka community. Memphis Stone wanted to move its present mining operation from Batesville to a 200-acre site along Eureka Road. The land is currently zoned [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 23,2010
Tags: accident, mining
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Massey Energy chief Don Blankenship says there’s evidence some victims knew methane gas was pouring into the Upper Big Branch mine before the explosion that killed 29 miners. Blankenship says some of the miners cut off electricity to the cutting head of the main mining machine at the Raleigh County operation. And [...] [...]
EUREKA — Circuit Judge Jimmy McClure says he’ll rule by Sept. 15 on a proposed gravel mining operation in the Eureka community of Panola County. Memphis Stone and Gravel Company wants to move its present mining operation from Batesville to a 200-acre site along Eureka Road. The land is currently zoned agricultural and Memphis Stone [...] [...]
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Thirty-three men stuck far underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill begins digging a planned escape route. The men were trapped Aug. 5 when a landslide blocked the shaft down into the San Jose copper and gold mine in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Last [...] [...]
COPIAPO, Chile — Rescuers are lowering capsules containing rehydration tablets, glucose and oxygen down a long hole to 33 miners who surprised the world by staying alive while trapped a half-mile underground for 2½ weeks. Raising hopes further yesterday, a second bore hole punched into the chamber where the miners are entombed and a third [...] [...]
RENO, Nev. — A search was underway after an accident at an underground gold mine in northern Nevada left two miners missing and feared dead. Barrick Gold Corp. has not confirmed any deaths following yesterday’s accident at the Meikle mine, which has seen three fatalities in the past 11 years. But a company official referred [...] [...]
MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Inspection teams are expected to continue searching the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men died in the industry’s worst U.S. disaster in 40 years. Owner Massey Energy says the teams are expected to return to the Upper Big Branch mine today. Teams of company and government workers are trying to make [...] [...]
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