Company spokeswoman Lynn Seay told ILN that the 606 initially furloughed employees of the Oakwood, Buchanan County operation in southwestern Virginia were informed last Friday that production would begin again on November 5.

The restart will be on a traditional five-day work week schedule, a reduction from Buchanan’s former seven-day structure when it closed nearly two months ago.

Seay said it would not have jobs for all the laid-off miners and the adjustment was due to market conditions.

“One-hundred ninety production and maintenance employees will not return to Buchanan mine, and the company is currently working to reassign those employees, as well as some salaried employees, to other Consol Energy mines,” she said.

Under typical conditions, the Buchanan mine has a 400,000 ton per month budget.

The reduced schedule will give it an anticipated production target of 293,000tpm of metallurgical-grade coal.

According to Consol data, the Virginia operation mined a record 5.7 million tons of coal in 2011.