Massey Energy’s Superior Surface Mine was given a National Award for Excellence in Surface Mining by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) at the MINExpo 2008 sponsored by the National Mining Association in Las Vegas, NV.
Located in Logan County, WV, Superior was given one of four national awards for excellence in [...]

Eight coal mine operations in five states, including three from West Virginia, gained top honors in the annual competition overseen by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
“These awards recognize the highest achievements in innovative techniques, reforestation, preparing mined land for long-term agricultural use and building enduring community infrastructure,” said Brent Wahlquist, OSM [...]

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp., a Kentucky based operator of energy and mineral related properties, announced today that it has purchased the necessary materials to replace and upgrade their existing 36“ beltline to a larger 42” beltline.
Everett Hampton, President of Whitestar Mining, LLC. commented, “The larger conveyer system is a key improvement as it will [...]

Opening arguments are expected today in a lawsuit that pits a steel maker against West Virginia’s largest coal company.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation is suing a subsidiary of Richmond, Virginia-based Massey Energy for failure to deliver coal to the steel producer’s coking operation in Follansbee.
Wheeling-Pitt sued Central West Virginia Energy Company in April 2005 claiming the company [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A subsidiary of Richmond-based Massey Energy faces a fine of up to 200-thousand dollars after pleading guilty to failing to perform a safety examination at a West Virginia coal mine.
White Buck Coal Company also faces up to five years probation. Sentencing is set for May 15th in federal court in Charleston.
White Buck [...]

Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE - News) will hold a conference call to review results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2006 on Friday, January 26, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The public is invited to listen to the conference call broadcast live on the Internet.
Fourth quarter financial results will be released after [...]

Many of the safety measures state legislatures and Congress rushed to adopt to protect the 46,000 people working in the nation’s underground coal mines after the Jan. 2. Sago Mine explosion have yet to take effect.
There are still no rescue chambers or wireless tracking and communications equipment in the country’s 606 underground coal mines, and [...]

The coal mining industry has high hopes for a new material that may harden underground seals that don’t meet federal strength standards.
Regulators say as many as 13,000 foam block seals in mines across the country don’t meet the new strength requirement the Mine Safety and Health Administration set in July. MSHA upped the strength requirement [...]

Safety violations that went uncorrected cost two coal miners their lives in a fire on a mine conveyer belt in January, a state report has found.
The deaths, at the Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine in southern West Virginia, came just two weeks after 12 men were killed in an accident at the Sago Mine, in [...]

State and federal regulators failed to find safety violations that contributed to the deaths of two miners in a conveyor belt fire at an underground coal mine in January, according to an independent report.
But J. Davitt McAteer, who was asked by Gov. Joe Manchin to conduct the investigation, said Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy Co. was [...]