U.S. Has Lost 191,000 Mining Industry Jobs Since September 2014
We can ship our coal to China and let them burn it dirty, but we won’t burn it clean here in the USA.
Hypocrisy!
And we sold our Uranium mines to the Russians. Why not sell anti-matter to the Klingons?
The delays in the permitting process by the Feds lend to this depopulating of American mining. Many, if not most, hard rock miners have downsized exploration and development of new mines.
U.S. Has Lost 191,000 Mining Industry Jobs Since September 2014
The mining industry category also includes oil and gas related jobs. The steep decline in crude prices since 2014 contributes to this decline.
In the small mining town I am from coal companies had an auction where over 500 pieces or surface mining equipment this week were sold. The big buyers were from China and Australia. According a friend that was there the stuff went for pennies on the dollar.
191,000 jobs lost, each with a heartbreaking, many with family breaking, stories behind them.
The MSM can’t find even one.
That’s what happens when the govt sets out to shut down all mining in the US.