Report: Wyoming down 6,000 mining jobs since 2019
CASPER â For Wyomingâs miner, the COVID-19 pandemic has been brutal. A new report by Wyomingâs Economic Analysis Division this week shows the mining sector lost more jobs than any other last year â 6,000 as of November 2020 â 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 stateâs principal economist, said. The collapse in energy markets worldwide incited by the pandemic led many mineral producers to dramatically scale ba...
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