MOUNT CARMEL – Harmony Mine is one of just seven underground anthracite mines still in operation in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is, however, producing a large quantity – and high quality – of ...

Miners began drilling into the rock salt at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s underground facility, the first time that work has commenced to expand WIPP’s emplacement panels since the nuclear waste ...

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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is proposing to require underground coal mine operators to equip continuous mining machines (except full-face continuous mining machines) with ...

The timing could hardly have been better. Last week, in the second week of the coal strike, the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. let it be known that it had conducted successful experiments with a ...

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A coal miner in Western Kentucky died after being pinned against a wall by a mobile digging machine in an underground mine, the first coal mining death in the state this year. Nathan G. Phillips, 36, ...