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Consol to temporarily idle mine in Washington County

By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

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By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

Consol Energy Inc. is temporarily idling one of its mines in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Enlow Fork, part of the vast underground mining complex Consol (NYSE: CEIX) owns in Greene and Washington counties, is being shut due to weakness in the coal markets due to COVID-19. It wasn’t clear how many employees would be impacted by the idling; there are 1,500 employers and contractors at the entire mining complex that includes Bailey and Harvey mines.

“We will assess and monitor the ever-changing situation in the global marketplace and will evaluate options continuously, as we navigate through this pandemic,” Consol said in a statement Tuesday. “As always, we intend to run our operations safely and compliantly, with our production based on market conditions and customer inventories.”

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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