Mining industry deaths hit a near-decade high last year. Most occurred in surface mines, like strip or open-pit mines, but there are fewer opportunities to train above-ground miners for rescues.

QUALITY FOCUS The Wirtgen surface miners allow for selective strip mining of interburden and coal seams, with the ability to achieve a high product quality Diversified engineering company Wirtgen ...

The Biden administration wants that to happen. But the bipartisan infrastructure law doesn’t require that projects hire former miners. President Joe Biden might be about to satisfy a long-standing ...

With global demand for many minerals increasing, mining companies are now exploring methods to accelerate projects and compress the timeframe between development and production. One such method is the ...

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 ...

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Environmentalists and representatives from coal mining communities across the nation on Tuesday pressed the Biden administration to finally appoint someone to head the Interior Department’s Office of ...

Surface mining in the northeast corner of Clark County could expand significantly if one property owner has its way. Synergy Resources has asked the county to consider expanding the so-called overlay ...