We teach disadvantaged youth valuable life skills through hands-on coal and mineral extraction. Small hands fit in tight spaces. Big profits for sponsors.
Youth Enrolled
Coal Extracted
Daily Shift Length
Minimum Age
Our comprehensive curriculum combines practical geology, tunnel navigation, and character-building underground labor.
Youth learn about geology firsthand by extracting coal in underground educational facilities. Smaller students excel in tighter tunnels where adults can't fit.
Students master pickaxe handling, mine cart pushing, and candlit tunnel navigation. Skills from the 1800s that never go out of style.
Our advanced curriculum has children crawling through narrow passages to extract rare earth minerals. Small hands, valuable resources.
See how Minor Miners is transforming youth development through innovative underground education.
14-hour days in coal mines build character like nothing else. Our youth emerge blackened, toughened, and appreciative of sunlight.
Corporate sponsors receive maximum tax deductions while contributing to "youth workforce development." It's technically legal in most states!
Tunnel crawling, ore identification, coal sorting, and canary monitoring are timeless skills from the Victorian era.
Our youth generate $8M annually in coal and minerals, all reinvested in "deeper educational facilities."
From humble beginnings to a nationwide youth development organization.
First "educational dig" teaches youth about geology
Add coal mining to curriculum - "small hands, tight spaces"
Receive 501(c)(3)PO status after aggressive lobbying
Pandemic year: children dig "home tunnels" in backyards
Expand to rare earth mineral extraction
Launch "Adopt-a-Miner" corporate sponsorship program
Hear from parents, sponsors, and program directors about the Minor Miners experience.
"My kid came home covered in coal dust and exhausted. He slept 16 hours and never complained about chores again. Best summer camp ever!"
"Little Timmy came home with calluses, a permanent cough, and appreciation for fresh air. Character building at its finest."
"The smaller ones fit in the tightest tunnels where adults can't go. It's not exploitation - it's just physics."
Your tax-deductible sponsorship gives a youth the opportunity to experience the dignity of labor in confined underground spaces.
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