Mining - 17 March 2015

A fuel truck driver has been killed in an accident at Alpha Natural Resources’ Republic Energy coal mine in West Virginia.

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A miner has died in an apparent rock fall at Alpha Natural Resources’ Deep Mine 41 near McClure, Virginia.