Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines.

The Alabama-based company planning to open a titanium mine adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp has not submitted $2.1 million in financial assurances required to get a permit from the Georgia ...

There were few signs in recent months that Core Natural Resources would shut down a southern West Virginia coal mine, leaving ...

Bramwell, West Virginia, is a wonderful destination for a day trip. It’s also a popular place for ATV riders exploring the ...

The Pocahontas Exhibition Mine in Pocahontas, Virginia is a preserved historic site offering visitors a glimpse into the coal mining heritage of the Appalachian region. Designated as a national ...

An influx of $7.5 million in federal grant money will allow repurposing of former coal mine lands in far Southwest Virginia for economic ... year that enabled the Pocahontas Exhibition Mine ...

POCAHONTAS, Va. (WVVA) -On Saturday, “Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine” reopened for the season. The mine got its start in 1882 as the first coal mine in the area. Although it later closed as a ...

Environmental groups are targeting the South Fork Coal Company, which runs more than 3,000 acres of surface mines near the Monongahela National Forest in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties. The West ...

April 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1614, Pocahontas ... In 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers. In 2016, San Francisco ...

the equilibrium sorption of methane on Pocahontas No. 3 (lvb) coal from the Bishop mine of western Virginia and on Pittsburgh seam (hvab) coal from the Pursglove mine of northern West Virginia has ...

The company, which operates in Virginia as Pocahontas Gas, produced around 52% of all natural ... and can also come in the form of coal mine methane, or CMM, produced by mining operations releasing it ...