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Adventure Archaeology. Coal Miners' Forgotten Discovery: A 100-Year-Old Historical Gem! Posted: May 22, 2025 | Last updated: May 22, 2025. Step back in time as we revisit what coal miners ...
Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.
It has been 10 years since the last piece of coal was extracted at Thoresby Colliery, marking the end of Nottinghamshire's ...
Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his wife Stephanie and hunt and fish in his ...
Revitalizing old coal mines for energy storage can offer coal-dependent communities a stake in the clean energy revolution. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) ...
A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners, for example, has been suspended. Related programs to provide x-rays and lung tests at mine sites have also shut down ...
The following story is part one of a two-part series examining the devastating impact of black lung disease on the lives of southern West Virginia coal miners and the complications they face when ...
Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, sits at his kitchen table on April 15 in Madison, West Virginia. Carter retired from mining in 2012 and began receiving federal benefits for black ...
The board of directors of the nonprofit Broad Top Area Coal Miners announced several projects and activities during their recent monthly meeting held in the Coal Miners Museum ...
Former supervisor Ryan Martin escaped a major methane blaze at a Queensland mine and helped source bottles of water to pour ...
Researchers argue that 300GW of solar energy could be produced at Mpumalanga’s old mines and those closing in the next decade ...