Figures revealing the state of West Virginia’s coal industry — one of the hardest to be hit by the market crunch — have recently been released by the West Virginia Coal Association, and some of the data is surprising in more ways than one.

According to Coal Facts 2015. recently unveiled to the public, total state production for calendar year 2014 totaled 116.9 million tons; 86.8 million tons were produced underground, and surface mine crews sent 30 million tons to the stockpile.

For comparison, 1997 was the state’s last record year of production; mines extracted 181,914,600 tons during that period.

The 141 coal companies operating in West Virginia in 2014 had a staggeringly low total number of active operations — just 205 — with mining methods split just about equally. Ninety-nine were surface, while 106 were underground.

The northern region of the state also took over the top place on production totals, as Boone County was replaced by Marshall County in the No. 1 slot for both underground mining and total output. Logan was top for surface mining production, and Boone County was top for employment with 2,215. Boone also remains tops in total reserves with 3.58 billion tons.

The largest underground mine in 2014 was Murray Energy’s Marshall County mine, which had a total 10.3 million tons mined by its crews (it also had the single largest employment of 1,035). The largest surface mine was Phoenix Coal-Mac Mining’s Holden 22 complex with 2.75 million tons.