[Old School]

Here ya go WC. Looks like things look rosey in the mining industry, doesn't it? Like RIUTG mentioned in another post. Wall Street has little to do with Main Street

http://news.yahoo.com/patriot-coal-posts...15010.html


I'll also give the latest hot off the press, direct from the barber shop just this morning, where I was privy to the conversation of 4 current coal miners.

Miner #1) We laid off a bunch last night, thankfully wasn't one of them. If they cut again, they'll get to me.

Miner #2) We all got cut back to 40 hours this week.

Miner #3) I got laid off. (he was one of the miners that worked for the company I posted the link to.)

Miner #4) When we work out our permit, I'll be gone too.

You're problem WC is that you dont hang around the barber shop enough. Perhaps you belong to the hair salon gang that just watches MSNBC? :biggrin: J/K

This may have already been brought up, Patroit Coal idled several mines last week most of these mines were met coal producers or contract mines located in Southern and Central West Virginia and yesterday Alpha announced that they were laying off around 320 miners in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia and scaling back to 40 hour weeks at other mines.

Some industry leaders are predicting that the down turn in Central Appalachia coal industry will last for the most of 2012.