Write to Avi Salzman at avi.salzman@barrons.com Trump Throws Money at Coal. Miner Stocks Love It.© BloombergLuke Sharrett/Bloomberg Coal has been on the decline in the U.S. for more than a decade.

"There is no block of coal worth any man's life," said another miner. Coal shoots out as it travels from a silo at the Iron Senergy coal mine plant, April 16, 2025, in Kirby, Pa.

Whitehaven Coal: an Aussie miner expanding into metallurgical coal Whitehaven Coal (US over-the-counter ticker: OTCPK:WHITF; ASX ticker: WHC) is a coal mining firm founded 25 years ago in Sydney ...

For it, they both now have coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, a debilitating disease characterized by masses and scarred tissue in the chest, and better known by its colloquial name: black lung.

Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, near the Appalachian foothills, Sable’s father worked in the mines just like his grandfather. Sable is a fourth-generation coal miner and proud of it. He’s ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.