As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong ...

Henderson, joined local officials and business leaders last week to celebrate the grand opening of Alliance Coal’s newest underground mining operation in ...

The mine produced just over 640,000 tons of coal and employed 164 workers in the second quarter of this year, according to U.S. Mining Safety and Health Administration data.

Fortitude Gold says its small County Line Mine near Gabbs will require minimal construction and infrastructure, so it can be ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, ...

James River Coal Co. received federal bankruptcy court approval Thursday to sell its idled McCoy Elkhorn mine complex in eastern Kentucky to initial bidders after no competing offers surfaced.

Mine Memorial Committee has been given the funds to help establish a monument to honor the 33 lives lost in a mine explosion that occurred more than 100 years ago.

After more than 30 years of welcoming tourists to the ghost town southwest of Tucson, the private owners will permanently close it to the public on June 3.

Kentucky, 1974. Brookside coal miners have tried to unionize, and their company, fearing a domino effect, refuses to sign their contract with the union, setting a 10-month strike into motion.

While modular buildings offer mines a camp solution that can be rapidly deployed and established, modular building providers can encounter various challenges, such as logistical challenges for ...

But for all the family atmosphere and sense of belonging, Sopris - the general name given to five hard-scrabble coal-mining camps about 3 miles west of Trinidad - stood in the way of progress. "They ...

Cliff Drouet is a forester in the Office of Surface Mining in Lexington. In an interview with WEKU's Eastern Standard, he ...