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 ...

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

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!

And it’s in energy storage that old coal mines could play a major role. Germany started to produce coal in the mid-1700s, and continued to rely on the fuel right through to the 1960s – the ...

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

Old coal mines could still have a role to play in heating homes – but this time, without burning fossil fuels. Martha Henriques explores the buildings heated from the warmth of long-disused mine ...

Old Coal Mines Have a Place in the Future of Clean Energy. A century-old technology is being reimagined as renewables boom. By Joe Ryan. May 24, 2017 at 5:00 AM EDT. Save. Ben Chafin ...

Foresters say that restoring mining sites is an opportunity to prove that something productive can be made of lands that have been degraded by decades of extractive activit.

A recent boost in federal funding from the infrastructure bill has helped the state take on more coal mine land reclamation projects. Some 120 mines out of over 300 have been reclaimed so far in Iowa.

Anyone who’s ever walked on a large, reclaimed coal mining site full of invasive species atop hard-packed dirt would be impressed by a successful reforestation effort. The soil on mines like those — ...

Month-old kittens scamper around, ... Coal mining runs in his family; his father, Paul Mullens, worked as a dozer operator and later as a superintendent of a surface mine.