Jeff Palmer, 59, is the third worker to be killed at the Coronado Global Resources-owned mine in the past six years.

Deep inside an abandoned coal mine, explorers crawled through collapsing side tunnels, flooded passages, and low ceilings ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

Authorities are probing an underground incident that killed one person and injured another, adding to the highly indebted ...

WEST FRANKFORT — Since its inception in 1941, the Old King Coal Festival has honored the region’s coal miners and their contributions to the community. The deep-rooted celebration kicks off Thursday ...

A letter discovered in 2023 during the digitization of the archive of the Bavarian Environment Agency, or LFU, has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. The 1949 letter was written by a coal mine ...

A project aiming to harness geothermal energy from disused, flooded coal mines in the northeast of England took another step forward this week after it was given planning permission for an initial ...

Gerald Lucas first picked up a No. 4 coal shovel in 1972. For the next 45 years, he worked underground. We’re more than a hundred feet under Beckley, West Virginia, when the lights go out. One minute, ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...