Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy

The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) serves a large and varied group of people, organizations and agencies throughout the Commonwealth. Through its six divisions,the agency deploys renewable energy and promotes energy efficiency, regulates mining and natural gas industries and protects citizens near those areas, protects and improves the environment through enforcement and reclamation and works to improve the economy through development and job growth with a special focus in coalfield communities. The agency is resource for localities to know where commodities exist within their geology and, through extensive mapping data, to know where historic and current mining is occurring as well as opportunities to develop land through reclamation.