In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.

In late September, an underground coal mine just outside the town of East Carbon in rural Utah caught fire. More than two months later, it’s still burning. Now, the once-bustling mine called ...

It is the misfortune of Bronco Utah Operations to now be mining such deposits as the renegade hedge-fund-owned startup tries to restore Utah’s oldest coal mine to past glory. According to the ...

In another era, he might’ve found work in a local coal mine, or a steel mill ... sat his old white hard hat, covered with stickers from mining concerns. When I began to criticize them, he ...

Don Barrett spent 23 years in the coal mine. Twenty years ago, he said, half of the kids on the football field would have ended up in the mines. But now? "Today, no chance of going in the coal ...

Local politicians said the facility, the country’s first new coal mine in decades, would create hundreds of jobs. By Stanley Reed Reporting from London The British government approved on ...

Main St., Rocky Top, Carolyn Krause draws on a recent talk by Knoxville engineer Barry Thacker on coal mine explosions early in the 20th century in Anderson County and their national impact. In his ...