The near-tragic accident in Pennsylvania illustrates a hazard that coal miners have worried about for years: Maps of many abandoned mines are inaccurate, in part because former operators voraciously ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

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Municipalities in the former anthracite mining area are being offered free mining maps to assist in community planning, coping with possible natural gas pipeline placement and with mine subsidence ...

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CORNING – Mike Jones would watch as his grandfather left the house in coughing fits, spitting up blood in the yard — the result of decades working in a Corning-area coal mine. Jones, now 69, lives in ...

The documentary heritage “Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská Štiavnica” represents a collection of almost 20 thousand of items from the 17th century up to the early ...

The Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) filed the freedom-of-information lawsuit after failing to get a response to its earlier requests to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. The group contends ...

The death of two Azerbaijani journalists and a local government official in a land mine explosion has drawn attention to the ongoing danger of unexploded ordnance in the territories that Azerbaijan ...

Robert Hughes stopped his maroon SUV in the middle of Espy Street, turning on his flashers to let drivers know he might be there for a while. He knelt by an uncovered hole in the street, about the ...