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Who was president of UMWA District 17 at the time of the 1921 Miners' March on Logan?
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What surface mining method uses large-diameter drills mounted on mobile equipment to bore into coal seams?
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Which one of the following did NOT publicly oppose mountaintop removal mining?
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Which one of the following was NOT eventually merged into Consolidation Coal Company?
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In 2000, a national publication referred to this Gilbert native as "the last of West Virginia's homegrown coal barons."
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Where does West Virginia rank nationally in terms of coal production?
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How many people died in the Buffalo Creek Flood?
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Who shipped the first commercial coal from the New River area in 1873?
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In which one of these places did a deadly coal strike occur in the 1950s?
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In what year was the Appalachian Wage Agreement signed between coal companies and labor?
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