Longwall Mining Subsidence Damage
Misc Gallery Julie Archer March 2, 2026
Old school “room and pillar” coal mining sometimes caused subsidence damages to the surface. Longwall coal mining removes the entire coal seam and actually plans to let the mine roof and all the formations above it collapse into the void left once the coal is removed. This subsidence can crack foundations, drain drinking water tables […] More
Tags: Legislation, Minerals-Royalties, Water
Misc Gallery Julie Archer March 2, 2026
Old school “room and pillar” coal mining sometimes caused subsidence damages to the surface. Longwall coal mining removes the entire coal seam and actually plans to let the mine roof and all the formations above it collapse into the void left once the coal is removed. This subsidence can crack foundations, drain drinking water tables […] More
Tags: Legislation, Minerals-Royalties, Water
WV SORO local meetings
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 1, 2010
Photos from a few local surface owner meetings held in 2008 through 2010 More
Tags: Land use, Leasing, Oil and Gas
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 1, 2010
Photos from a few local surface owner meetings held in 2008 through 2010 More
Tags: Land use, Leasing, Oil and Gas
Pictures of the Marcellus Shale formation outcrop
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 10, 2008
In most places in West Virginia the Marcellus Shale is thousands of feet under the ground. In the ridge and valley province of the Appalachian mountains, the rock strata buckled when Africa and North America collided eons ago. More
Tags: Marcellus shale
Misc Gallery WVSORO November 10, 2008
In most places in West Virginia the Marcellus Shale is thousands of feet under the ground. In the ridge and valley province of the Appalachian mountains, the rock strata buckled when Africa and North America collided eons ago. More
Tags: Marcellus shale
