Union labor now accounts for only a third of the nation's coal production.
Coal production was at 9.254 million short tons as of 2007.
Outlook African coal production is expected to increase by an average of 3% per year from 2005 to 2011.
The first coal production is planned to occur during the 2015/16 financial year.
After the war ended in the early 1970s, coal production was never able to recover.
And this year, the nation's coal production is expected to reach a record of more than 1.1 billion tons.
In all, 400,000 miners stopped coal production a month before winter was to begin.
Cutting the cost of coal production is a small step toward wider use.
Coal production began to decline in 1935, and the town was abandoned by 1940.
Once coal production is back up, we'll run through the backlog pretty quickly.