The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company were some of the largest employers of convict laborers. Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, suffocation ...

The coal miners were a diverse group of men who came from farms in Appalachia, Eastern Europe, and the American South to begin work in the coalfields of West Virginia, where mines were opened in ...

The United States has burned coal for over 100 years. Most of it is mined either deep underground, from the tops of mountains, or in expansive open-surface mines in the American West. It’s then hauled ...

The Lake Macquarie mine began underground and open-cut mining activities in the late 1800s before operations ... We know that coal mines will be closing over coming decades and we think there's ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

The country’s 108 coal mines have resulted in many communities being forced off their land from the 1970s to date. They have not only lost their homes and land, but have suffered the trauma of ...

Coal is used as an energy source because the compressed carbon in the pressured material burns for significantly longer than other materials like wood. In the 1800s, people began using coal to ...

It does not matter much—save in respect to the sign of the charge—what the nature of the dust is, for sand, coal dust, flour, or iron filings all give rise, to strong charges. Sand gives a ...