848 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 3.—Indicators of West Virginia business activity 
 
1966 
1967 P 
Change, 
 
 
 
percent 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 Total millions~ 
 Per capita                                          Construction activity:

 Construction contracts '  thousands    Nonresidential buildings do~.   
Residential buildings do~..    Nonbuilding construction do... 
 Cement shipments in and to West Virginia 
 thousand 376-pound barrels....Mineral production thousands.... 
Civilianworkforce do~~ 
$3,937 
$2,176 
$275,218 
$87,457 
$83,136 
$104,625 
2,739 
$891,800 
623.6 
$4,210 
$2,341 
$429,715 
$138,044 
$95,242 
$196,429 
2,305 
$937,858 
625.2 
+6.9 
+7.6 
 
+56.1 
+57.8 
+14.6 
+87.7 
 
—15.9 +5.2 
+3 
Totalcivilianemployment do~~Unemployment (percent of work force)        
          Manufacturing employment thousands~ 
579.5 
6.8 
133.0 
584.4 
6.4 
132.7 
+.8 
—5.9 
— .2 
   Durable goods employment do....~   Nondurable goods employment do - -Nonmanufacturingemployment
do_~ 
81.1 
51.9 
362.2 
80.6 
52.1 
370.8 
—.6 + .4 
+2.4 
Mining do~~Bituminous coal mining do...... 
47.2 
42.0 
47.9 
43.0 
+1.5 
+2.4 
P Preliminary. 
' F. W. Dodge Division, McGraw-Hill information Systems Company. 
 
 Sources: Bureau of Mines; West Virginia Department of Employment Security;
U.S. Department of Commerce; U.S. Department of Labor. 
 
 
Table 4.—Employment and injury experiences in the mineral industries

Yea and industry 
Average 
 
 
men 
 
 
working 
 
 
daily 
Days 
Active 
Man- 
days 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Man- 
hours 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Number of injuries 
——————— Fatal Non- 
fatal 
Injury rates per million man-hours 
————————— Fre- Severity
quency 
1966: 
Coal                
Nonmetal            
Sand and gravel       
Stone               
Total'             
1967: 
Coal                
Nonmetal            
Sand and gravel       
Stone                
Total'             
44,369 
1,005 
264 
1,324 
211 
307 
244 
270 
9,378 
309 
65 
357 
74,395 
2,472 
557 
2,880 
 80 4,320  17 2 13  50 
 59.14 8,734 6.88 485 26.91 21,898 17.36 1,068 
 
46,962 
215 
10,108 
80,305 
 82 4,400 
 55.81 8,297 
 
44,400 
785 
220 
1,155 
215 
248 
278 
280 
9,547 
195 
61 
323 
75,460 
1,559 
530 
2,600 
 62 4,240  18  13 1 42 
 57.01 7,121 11.55 429 24.52 792 16.54 2716 
 
46,555 
217 
10,126 
80,149 
 63 4,313 
 54.60 6,806 
P Preliminary. 
1 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
REVIEW BY MINERAL COMMODITIES 
 
M!NERAL FUELS 
 
 Coal (Bituminous).—West Virginia continued to be the leading coal-producing
State in the Nation. The total production of 153.7 million tons was 4 million
tons higher than in 1966, an increase of 3 percent. The value of coal mined
increased by 6 percent to $800.7 million from $753.9 million in 1966. 
 The production of open market coal 
totaled 133.9 million tons valued at $677 million and that for captive coal
totaled 19.9 million tons valued at $123.5 million. Both types of coal reflected
increases of 3 percent in quantity and 6 percent in value over comparable
data for 1966. The average value per ton of coal rose to $5.21 from $5.04
in 1966. There were 1,396 active mines with production in excess of 1,000
tons, a decrease of 201. Of the total output, 89 percent was at 1,070 under-