Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of ...

This eerie town sits above a coal mine fire that has been continuously burning for well over half a century and has been ...

The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being pushed ...

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

LEBANON TWP. - The Lebanon Township Museum will host "Tracks Through Time: The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Then & Now" at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, at the museum at 57 ...

A project to improve traffic flow and safety at a Rush Township intersection where a convenience store is planned and another ...

The demand for coal is only growing, yet investors don’t seem to want to take advantage of the opportunity, says Rupert ...

The coal seams there supply thermal coal (coal that's burnt to run electricity turbines) and higher quality anthracite coal, used locally for the production of steel and other products that are ...

The burning of anthracite coal requires appliances quite Afferent from those used for the burning of wood, or bitumin-)us coal, but the reasons for these differences, are not well un-lerstood by ...

We are an immigrant nation. Yet, there have always been problems associated with the newcomers. German-speaking people ...

F. Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U. S. N., it appears that the Collin's steamers use anthracite on the voyage to Liverpool, and Welsh coal, also an anthracite, on the return voyage. The Welsh coal ...