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 ...

Longwall Mining About 33 percent of all underground coal production in the U.S. comes from longwall mining. A continuous mining machine is used to isolate huge rectangular panels that are extracted by ...

Legally required water systems at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia were not functioning properly before the April 5 explosion that killed 29 mineworkers, according to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. It's thanks to a revived coal market with higher prices and ...

ROUNDUP — The Mine Safety and Health Administration ordered Signal Peak Mine to shut down its longwall mining machine Tuesday following an accident that injured a miner last week. The mine will also ...

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 ...

Kim Jones has a hard time explaining the disappearance of the once-gushing stream to her children, Kaitlyn and D.J. Steven Sunshine The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall ...

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 ...

Down in Washington, Pennsylvania, an hour’s drive southwest from Pittsburgh, one message can be found plastered on billboards, newspapers, even diner placemats. It reads: “Coal, Pennsylvania’s #1 Fuel ...

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 ...