The near-tragic accident in Pennsylvania illustrates a hazard that coal miners have worried about for years: Maps of many abandoned mines are inaccurate, in part because former operators voraciously ...
WILKES-BARRE – Robert Hughes stopped his maroon SUV in the middle of Espy Street, turning on his flashers to let drivers know he might be there for a while. He knelt by an uncovered hole in the street ...
BANKS TOWNSHIP -- You can see the smoke from a mine fire near Tresckow, but the Department of Environmental Protection is having a hard time figuring out exactly where that fire is burning. The DEP ...
Municipalities in the former anthracite mining area are being offered free mining maps to assist in community planning, coping with possible natural gas pipeline placement and with mine subsidence ...
Since nine men were trapped last year in a flooded Somerset County coal mine for three days, state officials have sought people willing to share their maps of coal mines. On Wednesday, they may have ...
CORNING – Mike Jones would watch as his grandfather left the house in coughing fits, spitting up blood in the yard — the result of decades working in a Corning-area coal mine. Jones, now 69, lives in ...
The Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) filed the freedom-of-information lawsuit after failing to get a response to its earlier requests to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. The group contends ...
WILKES-BARRE – Robert Hughes stopped his maroon SUV in the middle of Espy Street, turning on his flashers to let drivers know he might be there for a while. He knelt by an uncovered hole in the street ...
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