Caterpillar will present a number of new longwall mining products and solutions at the International Trade Fair for Mining, Power Generation and Metallurgy, September 10 through 13 in Katowice, Poland ...

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ROUNDUP — The Mine Safety and Health Administration ordered Signal Peak Mine to shut down its longwall mining machine Tuesday following an accident that injured a miner last week. The mine will also ...

A stubborn, smoldering fire at the Elk Creek Coal Mine in Gunnison County has led to the layoffs of about 150 employees — more than half the company’s staff at the mine in Somerset — plus the loss of ...

The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall mining” has permanently damaged a half-dozen streams in Pennsylvania, state regulators have found — a finding that could trigger deeper ...

More details continue to come out about the horrendous conditions that existed at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia leading up to the deadly explosion on April 5 that killed 29 ...

This weekend's testing of two methane monitors from the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia has not detected any evidence of tampering, NPR has learned. The methane monitors were removed from ...