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Wyoming Mining Industry Continues Losing Jobs Get our free mobile app The Wyoming Economic Analysis Division released a report for the month of April, showing jobs in the mining sector lost the most compared to all other industries. The mining sector lost 25.3% of its employment, or 4,900 jobs, year over year in March 2021 compared to March 2020. Dylan Bainer, Principal Economist for the Economic Analysis Division in the Department of Administration and Information, said the large drop in airline travel due to COVID-19 is a major factor in the decrease. Bainer said that the mining indust...

State economic analysis shows some boosts from wind development, oil prices; mining still suffering By Greg Hirst on February 9, 2021 Shutterstock CASPER, Wyo — Indicators from Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division released Monday confirm that mining has been by far the hardest hit sector of the state’s economy in the past year. January’s Wyoming Insight report, which tracks energy index and business indicators in the state, shows an overall improvement from December, with wind farm activity boosting collections and crude oil prices having its best showing in 11 months. January sale...

CASPER — For Wyoming’s miner, the COVID-19 pandemic has been brutal. A new report by Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division this week shows the mining sector lost more jobs than any other last year — 6,000 as of November 2020 — a staggering 29% decline from a year ago. The mining sector encompasses a wide variety of jobs involved in the extraction of oil, gas, coal, trona, uranium, copper and more, Dylan Bainer, the state’s principal economist, said. The collapse in energy markets worldwide incited by the pandemic led many mineral producers to dramatically scale ba...