In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving ... each way through remote winding mountain roads. “We want the coal industry to be successful.

Thus, when coal buyers from the East came to the ... immensely magnified on the precipitous slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. STRIP MINING in mountainous regions was rarely feasible prior ...

The Appalachian Mountains are beyond ancient ... that “king coal” — a totemic name that Sheldon gives to coal mining as a business — has had over the region is only a few hundred years ...

Appalachian coal mining has also left another imprint on the region’s mountain communities: Widespread economic hardship as the industry has declined. “The Appalachian people are ...

"Coal Town, USA": Doesn't sound like the most appealing place to visit, right? What with all those miners trudging around, pickaxes over their shoulders, hard hats off-kilter, their bodies ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

On a dead-end road that climbs out of the tiny city of Jenkins, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains ... resculpt landscapes disfigured by coal mining. After lying dormant for a period ...

Appalachian coal mining has also left another imprint on the region’s mountain communities: Widespread economic hardship as the industry has declined. “The Appalachian people are ...

Across the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia and Kentucky, the most popular type of coal mining literally involves blowing the tops of mountains off, covering streams in rock and dirt ...

In surface mining, coal companies use ... Benham and Cumberland across the mountain into Virginia, is one of the routes that a group called Backroads of Appalachia promotes to try to increase ...