[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Ferriter said it is his understanding that around the time of the Aug. 6 collapse, miners had been extracting coal from the pillars themselves.”
I thought I heard the owner say, early on, that this is NOT what they were doing. There’;s a lot of confusing info being put out, and not much real fact. Another thing, I’d like to know if the mining “expert” quoted in the article is a union guy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The United Mines Workers are mostly a rare thing in the western US.

[mmanager]

Trust me, they WERE pulling pillars and taking some of the barriers between the gob and the mains.