OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...

Dr. Crum, a Kentucky native, was well aware of the trends. Before attending medical school, he had worked at his family’s mine as a teenager until the coal reserves ran out.

O'Fallon Progress 100 years ago: Train pulling coal-loaded cars derails at Taylor mine switch By Brian Keller O’Fallon Historical Society President June 18, 2025 6:00 AM Brian Keller Provided ...

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.

The pulling cables employed in coal mines serve as power supply lines for electromechanical equipment. However, due to complex electromagnetic couplings among multiple conductors, it is difficult to ...

Gerald Lucas first picked up a No. 4 coal shovel in 1972. For the next 45 years, he worked underground. We’re more than a hundred feet under Beckley, West Virginia, when the lights go out. One ...

Grove City Area Historical Society Mining Committee Chairman Sonni Zambino tells the story of how the society’s new coal exhibit came to be during the exhibit’s opening June 3.

In a Feb. 10 ruling, a Missoula judge found that the federal government’s environmental review of Signal Peak Energy’s proposal to expand the Bull Mountains Mine harbored “sufficiently serious” errors ...

The Farmington No. 9 Mine explosion happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington.

Soma Gold fell 0.7% to C$1.35 in Toronto Wednesday morning, giving the company a market capitalization of about C$125 million. The stock has ranged from C$0.42 to C$1.40 in the past year.

Of all the nation’s coal-producing states, Pennsylvania has always been king. Vast fields of anthracite and bituminous coal — the richest in the world — fueled the young nation’s growth in industry, ...