Ohio annual coal production peaked at around 50 million tons in 1970, when the first clean air act was passed. It has steadily declined since to about 25 million tons. A century ago there were about 50,000 miners compared to about 2,500 today.
ODNR Geofacts No. 14 (2005)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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