Gov. Patrick Morrisey said the efforts by crews about three-fourths of a mile into the Rolling Thunder Mine remained a rescue ...

Coal is one of the most important energy sources on Earth. Read about the top 10 largest coal mines in the world and interesting coal facts.

A miner who was trapped by rising flood waters while assisting others to safety on Saturday remains missing as divers and ...

The body of a coal miner has been found six days after he got trapped underground in complete darkness in a flooded mine. The ...

On Aug. 31, MSHA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to require underground coal mines to equip continuous mining machines with proximity detection systems in order to protect miners ...

Body of trapped worker found inside flooded West Virginia coal mine after he endured 6 days in complete darkness - Holes were ...

In 1912, for example, the Hoadley Knight Machine was developed for mining coal. Primitive by modern standards, it used an electric motor, hydraulic swings and water sprays to breakdown rock faces.

Western Coalfields Limited is driving this expansion across Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Nagpur, and Amravati districts. Advanced ...

In rural northwest Pennsylvania, Jim Irey, a civil engineer and vice president of Berner Construction of Gap, Pa., located about 4-1/2 hours away to the southeast, is working on his fifth area coal ...

One of the illegal mining locations is in the Bukit Soeharto Forest Park (Tahura) area, a conservation forest.