West Pittston Historical Society’s featured speaker, Justin Emershaw, is greeted by guest and friend Judy Olaviany before the beginning of his program on the coal industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania ...

The West Pittston Historical Society (WPHS) will present “Slopes, Shafts and Planes — the Mechanics of Mining” as a part of ...

Lei Pan, captivated by flotation as a student, went on to develop a novel use of the separation technology that he shares with students in his lab and pilots with regional mines. × Michigan Tech ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

Now covered in moss, these concrete remnants once stood outside the entrance to a mine in Athens County. A local organization is trying to reclaim the space. They envision a playground here. The woods ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the fossil ...