The average starting salary for a coal mine worker is $60,000. "You can come right out of high school and make $70,000 a year," said Missy Perdue, 22, a stay-at-home mother whose husband, Jeff ...

For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the 21st century, not a moment passes that he isn't feeling the full effects of his ...

The Tennessee Coal Mining Company replaced local miners with convicts leased from the state in 1891. It prompted Coal Creek miners to organize and fight back against the system.