After being adopted by the Senate during the Saturday evening session, House Concurrent Resolution 37 completed legislative action, making bituminous coal the official state rock of West Virginia.
West Virginia is the second largest Bituminous Coal producing state in the United States, producing 157,456 short tons of Bituminous Coal just last year alone. The coal industry has evolved into, and has been for many years, an integral part of the economic and social fabric of West Virginia. It is fitting that a substance critical to the economic well-being of this great State of West Virginia and otherwise steeped in its history as Bituminous Coal be recognized as the official state rock of West Virginia.
This resolution was drafted as a result of a petition started by a young student, Britnee Gibson, from Gilbert High School in Mingo County.
