Again.....the only industries that support the mining of coal are not NATURAL GAS industries, they are by majority, Hydraulic hose, repair and fittings, electrical cable repair and maintenance, hydraulic and diseal mechanics such as Walker, Wayne, Cat...etc, Service pumps and supplies (as deep mines are wet and require the constant pumping of water), and of course your Equipment Sales Companies that sell and lease the required heavy equipment to mine coal either underground or on the surface....then you have the community that depends upon the salaries of the employees, gas stations, grocery stores...and many other retail sales outlets.
No where is there a requirement for NATURAL GAS, fracking, or the drilling for gas required to directly mine coal or indirectly support the coal industry. Thus all those 11000 jobs are there because....the mines are running at a higher capacity than before requiring that support.
What? Did you assume an inactive and downsized mining corporation is going to require 11000 new support jobs....if they don't need the support? Common sense is not so common.
This is not BIG BROTHER left wing government action that often has the mule attempting to push the plow....the private industry has a bottom line to consider unlike Big Brother that just prints more funny money in a back asswards attempt to stimulate a careless industry that should have been allowed to fail due to gross greed and mis-management like the big Banks and Wall St. investment firms. Thus.....in the REAL WORLD...those 11000 new jobs..... support or actual mining jobs..... would never exist if there was not a need for them to exist. Businesses in the private sector do not own their own printing presses.
FYI: The salaries of the majority of those SUPPORT CORPORATIONS.....are practically equal to the salaries earned by the average coal miner. Cat pays their mechanics very well often more than can be made in the mining industry because of the trade skills possessed by their mechanics that are all required to be trained in the latest technological advances, more than a basic understanding of the new computer systems that run the majority of the actual machines that mine coal.
Mining is not engaged as it was 75 years ago....with a mule, a pick, a number 10 coal shovel, and a case of TNT.