Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section which measured 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and ...

Underground mining operations have had to deal with development challenges including drainage, ... (25 alone in 1910), preceded by the 1907 Monongah Coal Mine disaster in West Virginia ...

The mine produced roughly 660,000 tons of coal in 2023 – a relatively small output compared to the largest mines in neighboring Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but more than twice the output of the ...

LANSFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- In this edition of One Tank Trips, we are going underground - and back in time - for an up-close look at a coal mine in Carbon County. The No. 9 Coal Mine operated from ...

A NIOSH study in 2018 found that 10% of underground coal miners who had worked for at least 25 years had black lung, up from 7% in 2012. In central Appalachia, that figure reached 20%, the highest ...

Any early warning sign can be a canary in a coal mine. ... A 1911 British law mandated that every mine with at least 100 underground workers keep “two or more small birds” on hand.

“My husband had 30 years in the coal mines and my son has 12 years underground,” she said. “I have uncles in there, too. They go where the money is, and they’re hard workers.

In the coal-dependent states of Central Appalachia, black lung afflicts more than 1 in 5 coal miners who have been working underground for 20 to 24 years, a drastic increase from about 1 in 30 a ...

“One thing I learned about the coal miners is that’s they wanna do.” You give them a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different kind of a job, and they’d be unhappy. They want to mine coal.

Colorado coal production declined somewhat last year but increased at the North Fork Valley’s West Elk Mine, which continues to lead mines in the state in production.

Many of the country’s remaining underground coal mines — the most dangerous kind — are located in Appalachia. MSHA has historically placed its field offices in mining communities. Although ...