These Cemeteries Are All That Remain of Mountains Destroyed by Mining

These Cemeteries Are All That Remain of Mountains Destroyed by Mining

Mountaintop removal mining is exactly as destructive as it sounds. In West Virginia coal country, entire mountaintops have been stripped into barren wastelands for the sake of coal. But every once in a while, you’ll see a lonely island of green—a centuries-old cemetery that just barely continues to exist.

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