On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South ...

One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine ...

The company Polymetals announced yesterday that “mining and milling operations have successfully recommenced” and that ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner who went missing when a mine flooded in West Virginia.

Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his ...

An excavator at an open-cut coal mine struck an overhead powerline and caused an electrical discharge over the cab.

Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five ...

The unassuming tan brick building in McDade Park might not look like a time machine from the outside, but step through those doors and you’re instantly transported to an era when coal was king and the ...

This story was originally published by AP News. Lisa Emery loves to talk about her “boys.” With each word, the respiratory ...

In the heart of Scranton, Pennsylvania sits a tan brick building that holds the gritty, fascinating story of how rocks that burn built America. The Anthracite Heritage Museum might sound like a snooze ...

Former miner David Nixon is working to record recollections of day-to-day life down the pit. He speaks to Laura Reid about ...