Officials with Cliffs Natural
Resources said the company no longer has immediate plans to idle the Pinnacle
Mine in Wyoming County
Company officials confirmed that
the Pinnacle Mine, near Pineville, will continue to operate at its current
capacity — meaning 450 coal miners will keep their jobs beyond the end of
August.
In June, Cliffs Natural Resources
announced the mine could be idled on Aug. 25 through a WARN, Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification. If that would have happened, only 40 miners would
have remained at the site.
Metallurgical coal which is used to
make steel is produced at the Pinnacle Mine, a site that Wyoming
County officials have called the
largest mine in Wyoming
County
