OUT OF WORK About 250 Miners Out Of A Job As Alpha Idles Four Kentucky Mines
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Jan. 7, 2013 8:33 AM EST
Updated: Jan. 7, 2013 10:46 AM EST
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Harlan County
, Kentucky
About 250 miners are beginning this new year out of a job. That's because four eastern Kentucky coal mines are being idled.
Three of those Alpha Natural Resource mines are in the Cumberland community of Harland County. The other coal mine is in Letcher County.
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Bethany Simmons
