Annual Report

Of The


DEPARTMENT OF

MINES AND MINERALS

COMMONWEALTH OF

KENTUCKY

For the Year Ending

December 31, 1997

BY

John L. Franklin

Commissioner



ENERGY ADMINISTRATION

2624 RESEARCH PARK DRIVE

P.O. BOX 14080

Lexington, Kentucky 40512-4080


The Annual Report for 1997 is available as a printed book and may be purchased. Contact Karen Taylor. The Annual Report may also be downloaded in sections for free. It is in MS Word version 7 format. Simply click on the files below to download or view them. All files are currently online

97-01.doc          Introductions - Table of Contents

97-02.doc          Heads of Department, Institutes and Associations, State Agencies

97-03.doc          Licensing Activity, Production Charts, Fatality Charts

97-04.doc          Directory of Statistics-general, Directory of Statistics- all districts

97-05.doc          Training & Education, Mining Board, Certifications, Mine Safety Analysis

97-06.doc          Explosives & Blasting, Oil and Gas, Online status

Barb97.doc     Barbourville District, table of coal mines

Harlan97.doc         Harlan District, table of coal mines

Hazard97.doc        Hazard District, table of coal mines

Madis97.doc    Madisonville District, table of coal mines

Martin97.doc         Martin District, table of coal mines

Pike97.doc        Pikeville District, table of coal mines

Note: no photographs or graphs are currently in these files


The Word 7 documents above are readable in Word 6, 7 or 8. You may also view them in Wordview 6, 7.0, 7.1, or 8 standalone or as a plugin/helper for your browser. These documents are readable in Netscape, MS Internet Explorer, AOL or CSi when using the Wordview as your plugin/helper. If you need to use Wordview, first "search" for it on your computer under C:\Windows\Wordview . If it is not there then you need to download and install the appropriate version from http://www.microsoft.com/Officefreestuff/word/   or http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/index.htm , use the 16 bit version for Windows 3.1 and the 32 bit version for Win95. If you need help or find a bug contact Karen Taylor.