Undermined: Twelfth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. OAK GROVE, Ala.—For what may be the first time in its history, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, charged with ...

VOLUMOUS COAL The new 242-m-long eleventh longwall face possesses reserves of 993 000 t of coal Forty kilometres from the front line of the war in Ukraine, vertically integrated mining and metals ...

At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—Lisa Lindsay was surprised. For months, she had waited for federal authorities to do something—anything—to mitigate the risks of the longwall coal mine expanding beneath her home.

In the recent past, there was a radical new technology to make work easier and dramatically increase productivity. It would reduce much of the drudgery of work and transform the industry. I am ...