The shareholders of coal mine giants Massey Energy and Alpha Natural Resources overwhelmingly approved a merger this morning, despite challenges from some large institutional investors and an ...

Alpha Natural Resources will close its Emerald Mine in southwestern Pennsylvania in November.Alpha, in December, sold its Pennsylvania coal subsidiary to Rosebud Mining Co. but continues to ...

Alpha Natural Resources, started by immediately idling eight of its coal mines - including four in West Virginia. And as Jessica Lilly of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, this could be ...

Alpha Natural Resources will cut its coal production by 15 percent and immediately lay off about 160 mineworkers while idling eight mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Alpha Natural ...

The 34-year-old Alpha Natural Resources miner from Wise, Va., will transfer from the now-idled Guest Mountain No. 9 to the Osaka mine, but it’s still only a 45-minute commute. His best friend ...

In this October 3, 2011 photo provided by the Alpha Natural Resources Ginny the first mine rescue dog in the world trained in Search & Rescue in both underground and surface coal mining operations ...

Last week, energy giant Alpha Natural Resources was cited for more than 200 violations from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), as part of one of the agency’s “blitz” inspections.

SIGNIFICANT progress has been made in assessing the $6.4 billion Alpha Coal mine and rail project, Environment Minister Tony Burke said. The team conducting the assessment has identified four ...