WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVNS) – West Virginia has been given more power by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to manage coal ...

Surface mining uses a variety of often highly specialised equipment such as trucks, dozers and excavators for extracting resources from just below the Earth's surface. It is generally more ...

The Department of the Interior has signed an agreement giving West Virginia expanded authority to regulate coal mining and reclamation on federal lands within the state.

Lanny Erdos is the son of a coal miner whose father toiled underground in Ohio. Now, Erdos is on the front lines of President Donald Trump’s bid to revive coal demand and production.

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

In open-pit mining, loading and haulage typically account for around 50–60 per cent of total operating costs, making efficiency gains in this area critical to overall mine performance.

CLAIBORNE COUNTY, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of the Interior approved a proposed coal mine on Bryson Mountain in Claiborne County recently. In a statement, DOI said it gave the green light to ...

The number of surface mining operations in Clark County could significantly increase in the coming years. The county received 22 requests, all but two from the same company, for surface mining zoning ...

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The bucket is all that remains of Big Muskie, once the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. It tells a ...

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