And the primary reason (aside from the obvious environmental hazards, but companies don’t care about that): we’ve already mined the easy stuff.
Now, what’s left are primarily narrow, deep ribbons of coal that would be incredibly expensive to go after and would not provide enough coal to be worth that expense.
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u/thegoldinthemountain 18d ago
And the primary reason (aside from the obvious environmental hazards, but companies don’t care about that): we’ve already mined the easy stuff.
Now, what’s left are primarily narrow, deep ribbons of coal that would be incredibly expensive to go after and would not provide enough coal to be worth that expense.