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

A range of automated technologies, from rock crushers to shovel swings, have taken the place of humans in recent decades—a key reason that employment in the coal industry fell between 1980 and ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

The agency now has 12 months to decide whether to protect the salamander, which only lives in an Appalachian rock outcrops targeted by coal mining. “This decision is an important first step for these ...