The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

vertical mine shafts, hazardous mining equipment and structural debris left from former coal mining operations, according to a site history on Taylor’s website. A section of Keyser Creek ...

The Pigeon Forge park opened for its second season in 1977 with a new flooded mine ride. The president of Silver Dollar City Inc. had a $9 million, five-year expansion plan that would continue to ...

Indian navy divers have found the body of a worker who was trapped with 14 others inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. The men had entered the illegal pit ...

Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. Timeline December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in ...

Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) ...

One shaft will be to transport workers and the ore they mine while the other will be for ventilation. Above ground, the project includes a processing plant, an area for solid waste storage, a ...

Geologists say it all began about 340 million years ago, when climate change caused glaciers to melt and oceans to rise and flood inland ... re-engineering the mine. Every massive piece of equipment ...