The Friends of Coal’s educational and outreach efforts continue this week when the organization hosts a tour of area mining operations for students from Washington & Lee University of Virginia on Tuesday, September 2nd.
The group will be hosted by Board members Andrew Jordon, Ben Hatfield and Bill Raney who will take them to visit the Tyler-Morgan facility, which features not only examples of mining and reclamation but also has been incorporated into Joint Base West Virginia, a multi-model, multi-site training facility for the National Guard and other Department of Defense components.
This site continues to be a perfect example of the many wide and varied uses former mine sites – and even current operations – are being put to through effective partnerships between the industry, government and private enterprise.