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Which one of the following did NOT lead to the cannel coal industry's downfall?
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2
What Mingo County native succeeded Arnold Miller as national president of the United Mine Workers of America?
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3
Which of the following was NOT a leading coke-making county in 1910?
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4
In what year was West Virginia's Department of Mines founded?
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Where did the deadliest mine disaster in U.S. history occur?
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Which of the following does NOT preserve coal mining history?
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What 2006 mine disaster in Upshur County killed 12 men, while one miraculously survived?
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What international financier forced the N&W Railway to give him 50,000 acres of prime coal land in McDowell County?
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Nearly all of West Virginia's coal deposits date from this geologic period.
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What is West Virginia's oldest commercially producing coal formation?
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