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In response to
"My understanding is that automation was as responsible as anything for the decline in coal jobs, I don’t see that trend reversing. -- (edited)"
by
znufrii
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Partly the decline of thermal coal, partly shifting production to better mines in the west, partly automation. I don’t see a dramatic reversal coming,
Posted by
mafic
Nov 1 '17, 06:51
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but an increase is possibly even likely over the next few years. It’s not a dead industry by a long shot.
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