Tadamichi Ikeda watches with folded arms as seven trainees work by the light of their headlamps inside Japan’s last underground coal mine. The students had come from Vietnam to learn from master ...

An increasing number of operations managers and engineers now recognise that replacing legacy equipment can be more ...

PETERSBURG, Indiana — AES Indiana’s Petersburg Generating Station, which towers over the White River in southwest Indiana, has been burning coal to generate electricity since the late 1960s. That era, ...

Scott Buckley grew up in West Virginia thanks to choices his family made generations before him. "My family moved to find employment," he told Newsweek. "And that employment was in the mines in West ...

LONDON – Russia's Nornickel has started replacing its old mining equipment with supplies from so called "friendly" countries - those that have not imposed sanctions on Moscow, it said on Monday, as it ...

Twelve years ago, former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins bought an old coal mine outside Sheridan, Wyo., sight unseen, for about $2 million. He thought the mine might eke out a profit. Instead, ...