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Rustic Ridge #1 mine is owned by LCT Energy of Johnstown, Pa., which is working it to extract metallurgical coal, used in ...
Smoke rises from the ground in Centralia, Pa., where an uncontrolled coal-mine fire has raged for decades. After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia.
The fairgrounds in Helena held the Montana Agricultural, Mineral and Mechanical Association (1869 – 1890) which became the Montana State Fair (1891 – 1932).
There’s a place in Pennsylvania where Victorian architecture meets mountain vistas, where cobblestone streets whisper tales of coal barons, and where the Lehigh River carves through a gorge so ...
Nestled in the embrace of the Pocono Mountains, where Victorian mansions perch on hillsides and the Lehigh River carves through a dramatic gorge, lies a town so picturesque it earned the nickname “The ...
We're going Back Down Pennsylvania Road and down under to a coal mine in Scranton back in 1994.
President Donald Trump has been adamant in voicing support for coal mining. From his first campaign, he has talked a lot about the importance of the industry as a domestic energy source. There’s ...
I was headed for the Tri-Cities, three towns in southeastern Kentucky close to the border with West Virginia. Cumberland, Benham and Lynch were once thriving coal mining towns, basking in the ...
In 1943, the work whistles were always blowing southeast of Red Lodge in the mining town of Bearcreek. World War II had given new life to the declining coal community.
OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...