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Show Small Kentucky Town Is Center of Coal Field PIKEVILLE, Ky. The town of Pikeville, population 4,500, in the eastern part of Kentucky, sits in the middle of 4 billion tons of known reserves of coking coal, of which nearly two billion tons are considered con-sidered recoverable under present mining practices, the United States bureau of mines reports. The report is a part of the bureau's bu-reau's survey to evaluate the nation's na-tion's reserves of coal suitable for making metallurgical coke. It is the first of its type for Kentucky. |