Long before heavy machinery and strict safety rules, coal mining demanded everything from those who worked beneath the surface. In the dim light of oil lamps, miners chipped away at rock and coal, ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says his department is beginning work to restore seven abandoned mine sites in south-central and southeast Iowa. Coal was strip mined from the areas. “So in the ...

At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...