On the morning of February 24th, 1923, a routine ascent from the depths of Medomsley Colliery turned into one of the darkest ...

Three years ago, one of the country’s largest electric utilities, Southern Company, made a splash when it announced it would ...

Stephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing ...

Echoes of the Past' is an article series exploring connections between the WVU sports, the state of West Virginia, and ...

More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last ...

This week we take our kayaks to an old Coal Mining towns riverbed and search for lost history! We bring ‪@WILDKYLE‬ along for the adventure and find some awesome history! Along the way I realize I ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like ...

The City of Sullivan will hold a somber ceremony next month to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Sullivan City Mine Explosion ...

The federal government has ordered a thorough investigation into the explosion at a mining site that occurred on Sunday at Sabon Pegi in Mashegun local government area of Niger State, with a ...

Two survivors of a mining disaster in South Africa claimed some of their colleagues “resorted to cannibalism” as their only means of staying alive after police blocked their food and water.

The descendants of a miner killed in the Gresford disaster 90 years ... idea of the heritage of the mining industry. "Some of them have never touched or even seen coal before.