Fire at Leer South Mine in Barbour County cost company $30 million: Report

Fire at Leer South Mine in Barbour County cost company $30 million: Report

PHILIPPI, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Leer South Mine in Barbour County is on track to fully reopen later this year after it was closed from an underground fire in January. The quarterly report for Core Natural Resources, the company that acquired Leer South in a merger just days after the fire, was released Wednesday. The report gave an update on Leer South, saying that team members have re-entered the mine since the "combustion-related activity" that h…

Core Provides Update on Leer South

On January 15, 2025, Core Natural Resources announced that it was sealing Leer South’s active longwall panel to extinguish isolated combustion-related activity there. Since that time, the Leer South team – in close collaboration with federal and state regulators – has safely re-entered the mine and resumed development work with continuous miner units, the company said. Additionally, the team has assessed – via the deployment of infrared cameras …