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 ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job.

Underground water levels in Kakula Mine stabilized; dewatering to commence in Q3 2025Kamoa-Kakula revises 2025 production guidance to between 370,000 and 420,000 tonnes of copperSmelter start-up ...

We took our kayaks into an abandoned underground mine – and what we found was unforgettable. Paddling through flooded tunnels and echoing chambers, we explored a hidden world beneath the surface.

Coal mine-to-solar conversions are already happening in some countries, most notably China, which leads the world in solar uptake. There, 90 conversions with a capacity of 14GW have already been ...

These mines are in Jharkhand, MP, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana. The new data on coal-to-solar projects shows that China has 90 operational coal mine-to-solar conversions, with a capacity of 14 ...

In Pennsylvania, where mining dates to the late 1700s, coal was mined in almost half of the state's 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind hazards ...

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source.