U.S. President Donald Trump has singled out the coal industry as a key driver of U.S. energy dominance, but there are ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Old coal mines aren’t just relics of the past - they’re full of risks, mystery, and sometimes hidden beauty. In this video, we venture into a long-abandoned coal mine known for unstable ground and ...

Miners in northeastern Pennsylvania are urging safety after a man was rescued from an abandoned mine shaft in Luzerne County over the weekend.

But these old rocks were one of the rarest minerals found on Earth. Until the discovery, only about a snowball-sized amount ...

Industrialist Isidro Consunji built his family's DMCI into an infrastructure empire. The $660 million acquisition of a ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal.

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 and runs ...

Kentucky legislature removes workplace safety standards, passing measures that improve profits at the expense of workers’ ...

The two octogenarian founders of global commodities giant AMCI have had a bitter falling out, and it has paralysed one of Australia’s most successful miners.