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• Aimone-Martin, C.T., Martell, M.A., McKenna, L.M., Siskind, D.E., and Dowding, C.H., 2003, Comparative study of structure response to coal mine blasting: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Appalachian Regional Coordinating Center, Pittsburgh PA, Contract CTO-12103, 187 p.
• Energy Information Administration, 1995, Coal Data: A Reference: U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., DOE/EIA-0064(93), Washington, D.C., 132 p. http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/coal/006493.pdf
• Gardner, S., 2002, Under the ground, in Goode, J.B. (Ed.), Mining in the 21st Century—The Cutting Edge: Ashland, Kentucky, Jesse Stuart Foundation Books, p. 27-32.
• Gardner, S., 2002, On the surface, in Goode, J.B. (Ed.), Mining in the 21st Century—The Cutting Edge: Ashland, Kentucky, Jesse Stuart Foundation Books, p. 33-41.
• Kentucky Coal Association, 2002, Coal Education, Modern Mining Pictorial History, website http://www.coaleducation.org/technology/default.htm
• Papp, A.R., Hower, J.C., and Peters, D.C., 1998, Atlas of Coal Geology: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 45, CD ROM.
• United Mine Workers Association, What coal miners do (types of mines) website, http://www.umwa.org/mining/colminrs.shtml
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, Mid-Atlantic mountaintop mining draft programmatic environmental impact statement: varied pagination. www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/eis.htm
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, Mid-Atlantic integrated assessment–coal mining: www.epa.gov/maia/html/coal-mining.html, last modified Sept. 2003.
• Zeeger, D.A., 2002, Mechanization of the coal industry in the twentieth century, in Goode, J.B. (Ed.), Mining in the 21st Century—The Cutting Edge: Ashland, Kentucky, Jesse Stuart Foundation Books, p.12-20.

ee also Coal Information, Kentucky Geological Survey http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/coal_information.htm

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