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Thursday 21 people participated in a short course presented by Christopher Mark, MSHA. The course was “Pillar Design for Western Coal Mines” and reviewed fundamental aspects of pillar design for longwall and room and pillar mining. Hands-on training with the software provided a valuable tool for attendees.

Facebook’s new 300,000 square-foot data center, now operating in Forest City, North Carolina, took 16 months and 1.2 million labor-hours of construction, and .... This Facebook facility will require electricity from about one million tons of coal over the next decade

The Reality: Coal is the world's most rapidly growing fuel. From 2011-2020, coal will generate over 100,000 terawatt hours -- more electricity than gas produced in the past 50 years, more than nuclear has ever produced and equal to the power output of 1,200 Three Gorges Dams