As life happened, as the years past, and as the world changed, Robert Bailey's quest to hug life and remain active has never wavered.

David Atkinson takes a whistlestop tour to track down the community spirit of Alderley Edge, Wilmslow and Prestbury ...

A conservation group says it will pay $60 million to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that spent ...

The Australian sharemarket closed lower as banking and mining stocks dragged amid uncertainty around the Israel-Iran conflict ...

The closure of Cannock No 8 pit in 1962 marked the beginning of the end of mining in the Midlands. Hamstead Colliery, on the edge of Birmingham, would continue mining for another few years but ...

Mining at Birmingham diversified after the appointment of Professor John Cadman in 1908. As Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he added oil mining to the syllabus, with oilfield drilling rigs ...

THE report of the work of the Mining Research Laboratory in the University of Birmingham during 1932 has been published. This is mainly financed by the British Colliery Owner's Research ...

Undermined: Thirteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. OAK GROVE, Ala.—The regulators have known all along. The residents have been telling them. Alabamians have for ...

If approved by state and federal regulators, the project would be one of the largest expansions of coal mining in Alabama in recent years, with the new facilities expected to increase Warrior Met ...

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 Birmingham.

Jay Justice—son of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice—was a no-show at a court hearing in a Clean Water Act lawsuit over pollution from its plant. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Chief U.S. District Judge ...

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. () — A grant of over $20 million from the U.S. Department of the Interior will help rehabilitate hazardous mine sites around Alabama to their natural state, according to the ...