Troy Minerals has signed an option agreement with an arm's length party, Wyoming Mines, to purchase a 100% undivided interest in and to certain mineral claims.
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 14, 2023 / Troy Minerals Inc. (CSE:TROY) ("Troy" or the "Company")is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement dated February 13, 2023 with
wyoming, just days before the fourth of july, 600 miners in gillette suddenly found themselves out of works as two mines shuttered their gate for the first time in their 50-year history. they ve never shut the mines down. this is the first time? it s unprecedented. that never happened. reporter: how long have you been in the coal business? i started in december of 1979. for me, this is the first time unemployment. so i m in a better position than some of these people that, you know, they need their paycheck. i ve talked to several people that need a paycheck yesterday. reporter: what kind of chaos has this thrown into the lives of coal miners such as yourselves? not being able to pay bills, not knowing how we re going to pay bills, not knowing how we re going get jobs, what to expect. reporter: there are only 30,000 people living in gillette. the loss of 600 jobs is devastating. it s just a mess. a mess of people, families broken, house is not going to be paid for. th
impossible from the start. instead, here s what s happened. the coal industry has seen a rash of mines going out of business as coal use has declined nationally in favor of cleaner, less carbon emitting and also cheaper forms of energy. mines are sold repeatedly from one company to another, passing off their debts and operations, running operations into ground and then leaving miners out of work. once again miners find themselves out of a job. this time in virginia, west virginia, kentucky and wyoming. a company called black jewel, the country s sixth large itself coal producer filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, leaving most of the country s 1700 people out of work, including 600 in the tiny coal dependent city of gillette, wyoming. trymaine lee has their story. reporter: there has been coal mining in the powder river base son of northeast wyoming for over 100 years. but in the 1970s, the industry suddenly boomed thanks to one of the most sweeping environmental
god for us to use there. will be some coal jobs, and maybe they can find a way to use it. but as it is right now, it s not helping the predicament we re already in as far as the climate. reporter: when you year, politicians and president trump down, talking about saving coal mining, coal miners. baloney, it s baloney. reporter: do you think that as americans we need to shift to a different form of energy and not rely on let s just say that i signed up for a wind technician job. reporter: you re there? oh, yeah. that was yet another fantastic report from trymaine lee. there is a potential buyer for the wyoming mines. the company that owned them previously, but the fate of the miners still renanz unsettled. coming up, shocking new court documents shows the trump administration is still separating families at the border defying a court order. like job. when he was diagnosed with cancer,