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State mining officials identified the victim as William Wayne Parrott, 58, Big Stone Gap, Virginia.  Parrott was a mining repairman who’d worked as a miner for 33 years.     A joint state and federal investigation is underway after a mine wall collapse killed a veteran miner in Wise County, Virginia Thursday morning.    The accident happened about 6:30 a.m. at the Big Laurel Mining Corporation