Elon Musk referenced a Pennsylvania limestone mine where federal employee retirements are processed, but the mine's story is ...

Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.

More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last ...

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

High Littleton’s history can be traced back to Saxon times, while Hallatrow’s origins are probably much older. The Domesday Survey of 1086 recorded each village occupying about 600 acres of mainly ...

Looking back at the past, cooking appliances were very, very rudimentary. The earliest type of oven was a ‘grate’, found in areas where the coal miners were busy mining coal that was available locally ...

Residents can explore around the remnants of an abandoned coal mine in OC’s backcountry with Irvine Ranch Conservancy.

Over 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan embedded its roots in the Northeastern part of the United States. One of their targets ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

WARSAW (Reuters) -One miner died and 11 were hospitalised after an underground tremor shook a coal mine early on Monday belonging to Polish mining group PGG in Radlin, southern Poland, PGG said. The ...