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Patriot Coal to idle Highland mine, Kentucky

Patriot Coal to idle Highland mine, Kentucky

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12th May 2014

By: Henry Lazenby

Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America

  

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TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – US coal miner Patriot Coal on Monday said that its Highland mine complex, located near Henderson, Kentucky, would be idled with immediate effect following a structural failure last week that damaged a portion of the Camp preparation plant.

Patriot said that it expected to resume full production at the mine by the end of June, with a possibility of starting limited production earlier, when the preparation plant had been repaired sufficiently to resume partial coal processing operations.

At full operation, the Highland mine complex has over 500 employees and ships about 3.8-million tons of coal a year.

At the end of April, mere months after announcing its emergence from an 18-month-long Chapter 11 reorganisation as a well-capitalised private company, Patriot announced that it had issued 60-day notices of potential layoffs to 847 West Virginia workers at two mining complexes.

North American coal miners are dealing with weak prices amid low demand for thermal electricity-making coal and metallurgical steelmaking coal as competition from the emerging shale gas industry impacts on markets.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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