“Matches, cigarettes, cigars, lights, anything?” John Prudent asked me. John Prudent, 30, was a coal miner. He had a college degree, but he found out that he could earn 2 1/2 times in a coal ...

President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

At Donald Trump’s rally in West Virginia, the presumptive Republican nominee received a gift from a coal mining association ... who handed Trump the hat to loud cheers and applause.

They come despite Donald Trump’s recent executive orders aimed at boosting “beautiful, clean coal,” which the president signed while flanked by more than two dozen miners wearing hard hats.

A whimsical name that's a mystery to most of us, it's "one of the earliest forms of light for coal ... miner's pick is a candle in a forged holder with a hook to hang on the front of the hat ...

Christopher Williamson, Mine Safety and Health Association: This is my great-grandfather's hard hat that he wore when he was a coal miners. I have seen more miners packing around oxygen tanks than ...