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Dallas power company Luminant will lay off 132 East Texas mine workers later this year as it shutters its Oak Hill lignite mine south of Longview. The layoffs will occur at mines in Rusk and ...
OAK HILL — The class-action suit against a security company contracted at Trinity Coal Co.’s Frasure Creek Mine in Oak Hill has been certified by a Kanawha County judge, and the defendants ...
Luminant Mining Company said Thursday afternoon that the company would idle the Oak Hill Mine by the end of the year. The mine is among three that serve Martin Lake Power Plant. Operations are ...
The reclamation project at the 26,000-acre Oak Hill mine included practices such as baling pine straw from the forest floor for use as landscape material and establishing a breeding population of ...
OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) - More than a year after they last worked for a Frasure Creek Mine contractor in Oak Hill, about 40 mine security guards are set to soon receive their final paycheck.
The latest honor, the Texas Reclamation Award, came for creating diverse land use and putting in place excellent land-management practices on a 2,000-acre expanse of its Oak Hill Mine in East Texas.
It’s part of the Oak Hill Parkway project, which the Texas Department of Transportation broke ground on July 1. The purpose of the project is to "improve safety and mobility" on U.S. 290 and SH ...