CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble Shoal Channel at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Monday, the CBBT ...

A post circulating widely on Facebook shows an enormous mining machine and claims to detail the earth moving needed to fuel electric vehicles. "This machine is required to move 500 tons of earth/ ore ...

A state grant for $605,849 was awarded to a project to reclaim abandoned mine lands near the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train in Ashland. State Sen. David G. Argall, R-29, Rush Twp., and Rep.

ASHLAND, Pa. — Ralph Buchspics from Ashland works at the same mine his grandfather did decades ago. “He was a miner, so he mined coal inside of there. Most of them were digging, digging and digging, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ASHLAND – A new structure at Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine called Staudenmeier Station will provide a ...

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 ...

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

The recent West Virginia mine disaster http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041404938.html repeated a tragedy we have seen far too ...