A new community hub for people living in the former mining town of Knottingley is set to be officially opened later. The town ...

Experience the thrill of exploring an underground coal mine in Pennsylvania, a bucket-list adventure full of history.

A historic museum on the site of a former coalmine is set to reopen later this year after being bought by a miner's son. Haig Colliery Mining Museum in Kells, Whitehaven, closed in 2016 amid financial ...

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Cumberland is testing whether its abandoned coal mines can become a town-wide geothermal network that supports redevelopment, economic growth, and lower emissions.

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.

In many towns built on coal, the end of steady mining work didn’t just mean fewer jobs—it meant fewer reasons ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully developed advanced modeling tools that ...