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Mountain Top Removal for Coal Mining in West Virginia

Description:We went to West Virginia to investigate mountain-top removal – which a way of extracting coal from deposits under mountains. Instead of drilling into the mountain and sending men underground to take out the coal in the traditional way, they just take the whole top of a mountain off. A mountain is built like a cake. You have your worthless rock-minerals, and then you have your icing, which is the coal. Then you have another layer of rock, another layer of icing, and so on. (20:27)

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