WAPELLO COUNTY, Iowa — Iowa isn’t typically known as coal country, but it does have over 300 abandoned mine land (AML) sites, ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company were some of the largest employers of convict laborers. Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, suffocation ...

A Scripps News investigation found as many as 1,300 coal mining facilities across Appalachia have been sitting for more than ...

Six workers at a Sunrise Coal facility in Knox County were injured Friday, law enforcement officials said, after an accident in an underground mine in Bruceville, Indiana. Knox County Central ...

After years of steady decline, the price of a key type of coal used to make steel doubled in 2016, largely due to a spike in demand from China. This led some mines to hire more workers and ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

May 20, 2024 — A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and Colorado. Their findings open the possibility that these mines could see a secondary ...

From Pennsylvania to the north of England, coal mines helped to power the Industrial Revolution, turbocharging the economic growth of countries around the world. Today, however, the production and ...

Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed. Two campaign groups had brought legal action over the previous government's decision to grant planning ...

Europe is moving much faster than expected: several countries have already closed all their coal mines; Belgium, Austria and Sweden have shut down all coal-fired power plants while others are in ...

The engine was commonly found in coal mines across Britain and Europe in the 1700s. Steam-powered engines in coal mines dated back to 1712, with invention of the Newcomen engine – a device that ...