Custom Staffing: 215 coal mining jobs available

WEHT-TV ^ | October 27, 2017

[2ndDivisionVet]

Custom Staffing Services is recruiting 215 surface and underground miners for partners in the Tri-State.

Custom Staffing specializes in finding long-term placement for miners, resulting in full-time employment.

The pay rate will be up to $22/hour.

There will be a job fair for coal mining jobs at Custom Staffing Services at 1820 N. Green River Rd. on Monday, October 30 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

If you can't make the job fair, you can visit the Evansville office Monday-Friday, apply online, or visit Custom Staffing in West Frankfort, Illinois every Tuesday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Old Firehouse Event Center at 108 N. Emma St.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Some of these jobs just aren't coming back." ~Barack Hussein Obama

[Robert DeLong]

Illinois has coal mines?

[Robert DeLong]

Or is the coal mine in Indiana? Didn’t know they had coal mines either.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Iowa used to have them. I lived for a few years in Centerville, the site of mining.

[KC_Conspirator]

Great quote. I remember when we were told that 1.8 percent anemic growth was “the new normal” by the MSM. Now we have 3 percent.

[M.K. Borders]

The Wabash river valley, from Terre-Haute to the Ohio River is heavily cut with coal mines. Mostly surface operations. Two of the biggest drag-lines in the world once operated 24\7 in Sullivan County.

[TruBluKentuckian]

Lots of coal mines in the Illinois/Indiana/Kentucky Tri-State area. It’s known as the Western Coal Field and is more productive than the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field.

Back in the 70’s pretty much everybody I knew either worked in a mine or was married to someone who worked in a mine. It was a very prosperous time here.

Now, not so much.

[GingisK]

Yes, it is such an alluring job...

[Robert DeLong]

Interesting, thanks. I knew that Kentucky, West Virginia, & Pennsylvania have coal mines. I actually looked it up & was amazed to find there are 25 states with coal mines,:

1. Wyoming 395.7 (see Coal mining in Wyoming)
2. West Virginia 112.2
3. Kentucky 77.3 (see Coal mining in Kentucky)
4. Pennsylvania 60.9
5. Illinois 58.0
6. Montana 44.6
7. Texas 43.7
8. Indiana 39.3
9. North Dakota 29.2
10 Colorado 24.0 (see Coal mining in Colorado)
11. Ohio 22.3
12. New Mexico 22.0
13. Utah 17.9
14. Alabama 16.4
15. Virginia 15.1
16. Arizona 8.1
17. Mississippi 3.7
18. Louisiana 2.6
19. Maryland 2.0
20. Alaska 1.5
21. Oklahoma 0.9
22. Tennessee 0.8
23. Missouri 0.4
24. Arkansas 0.1
25. Kansas 0.1

Since it is a product that I rarely, if ever, use, I guess I just really never paid attention as to which states actually mined coal. But considering how coal is created I guess it makes sense that as many states have coal in this country as there are states mining it still.