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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Peoples' Appalachian Research Collective Papers regarding Strip Mining, A&amp;M 2618, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>This collection consists of correspondence, notes, articles, newsletters, news clippings, reports, studies, Congressional testimony, and other materials collected by Keith Dix and other members of the Peoples' Appalachian Research Collective for the purpose of preparing a 1971 issue of <title>Peoples' Appalachia</title> concerning strip mining in Appalachia. The bulk of the material is newsletters from anti-strip mining organizations and reports, studies, and testimonies on regulation of this industry.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="local_LC">Strip mining -- Appalachian Region</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - Regulation.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - Strip mining.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004752" source="lcsh">Environmentalism</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129129" source="lcsh">Strip mining</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Surface mining.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - strip mining issue.</subject>
    <title source="ingest">People's Appalachia.</title>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011093934" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Peoples' Appalachian Research Collective</corpname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88046569" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Dix, Keith</persname>
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