The bucket is all that remains of Big Muskie, once the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. It tells a ...
Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...
The Minersville Area Historical Society will kick off its America250 Speaker Series with a program exploring the coal ...
Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns who ...
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour in Scranton. "It was ...
After nearly 250 years, hard coal mining in the Czech Republic has ended. The final shift surfaced from the ČSM mine Sunday ...
With a symbolic final cart of black coal hoisted from a depth of 1,300 metres, the Czech Republic marked the end of hard coal ...
A retired Wigan borough coal miner who survived a near-deadly pit accident is now helping keep the industry's history alive at the age of 94.