A contour cut at Revelation Energy’s Rush Creek coal mine in Kanawha County, W.Va. Photo courtesy of Kanawha Forest Coalition

If Blackjewel and Revelation can’t find new owners for mines by a court-imposed deadline at the end of the year, reclamation bonds may be vastly insufficient to clean up the mines the company was responsible for.

Appalachian Voices has created an online tool (see below) to help track the status of those mines — which have successfully completed transfer to new ownership and which remain in estate, unsold and likely to end up with their reclamation bonds forfeited.