East Lynn Mine

I was looking for some information on oil refineries on the U.S. Energy Information Administration Web site, and I wandered over to the coal databases. After doing some filtering and sorting, I found what coal mines in West Virginia had the most production in 2006.

The Rockspring Development mine at East Lynn in Wayne County was the highest-producing underground mine in the state that year. Some stats:

Production: 2, 735,790
Average employment: 263
Labor hours: 636,190

FWIW, the East Lynn mine was the eighth largest producer in the state last year. Ahead of it were six strip mines and one combo strip-augur mine.

And only two of the top 10 producing mines were UMWA mines.

Ahead of East Lynn on the list was a Frasure Creek mine of Milton. (?). I'll worry about that one some other day.