Botts was born in Black Diamond in 1931, back when the city was, well, not a city, but a Pacific Coast Coal Company town; his ...

Colorado has a blueprint for closing its coal facilities. Critics say the plan could drive up customers’ bills.

Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Bingham Canyon Mine Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Mining Company built the “largest industrial mining complex in the ...

Southeastern Arizona has a rich mining history dating back more than 1,000 years.

Gold mining in Glen Canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source.

Mining for new opportunities in Appalachia’s coal country Over the last few decades, American energy companies have decreased their coal production, leaving thousands of miners without jobs.

Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines. It should come as no surprise, as coal mining was the primary industry in ...

The Coal Glen explosion isn’t the area’s only tragedy. There’s a long history of loss in the region. Wicker estimates more than 130 workers have died mining the Deep River coal field, though the true ...