Caterpillar will present a number of new longwall mining products and solutions at the International Trade Fair for Mining, Power Generation and Metallurgy, September 10 through 13 in Katowice, Poland ...

This weekend's testing of two methane monitors from the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia has not detected any evidence of tampering, NPR has learned. The methane monitors were removed from ...

A stubborn, smoldering fire at the Elk Creek Coal Mine in Gunnison County has led to the layoffs of about 150 employees — more than half the company’s staff at the mine in Somerset — plus the loss of ...

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The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall mining” has permanently damaged a half-dozen streams in Pennsylvania, state regulators have found — a finding that could trigger deeper ...

ENON, Pa. (AP) — Consol Energy says it’s idling one of five longwall mining machines at its Bailey mining complex in southwestern Pennsylvania. The company is doing that because demand for coal has ...

Investigators have recovered three key pieces of evidence in the explosion that killed 29 mine workers in West Virginia on April 5, NPR has learned. The evidence includes two safety devices called ...

WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...