A mine safety expert says many old mines in Western Pennsylvania have less than 50 feet of ground cover between the mine and ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and ...

The No. 9 Coal Mine operated from 1855 to 1972, making it the longest continuously operated deep anthracite coal mine ... and Museum is located in Lansford, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles west ...

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) on Wednesday announced that Eckley Miners’ Village — a landmark patch town preserving the legacy of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite mining industry — ...

1 of that same year, a bitter strike began in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania ... the population was in some way connected to coal, miners and their families flocked to see the painting ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

The tour of the Brooks Mine in Scranton, in conjunction with Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, has been rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 1, to coincide with the public program being presented by the ...

No credit is given by that paper to our Pennsylvania friend ... the assumed inventor, claims that anthracite coal from the mines ot South Wales can be used in these engines, at a saving of ...

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) has unveiled plans for an extensive upgrade project at Eckley Miners’ ...